My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Abortion | Accept: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Aesthetic experience | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Aesthetic value | Accept: subjective |
| Aim of philosophy | Accept: understanding |
| Analysis of knowledge | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Arguments for theism | Accept an alternative view: All are equally terrible. |
| Belief or credence | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Capital punishment | Lean towards: permissible |
| Causation | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Chinese room | Accept: doesn't understand |
| Concepts | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Consciousness | Accept: identity theory |
| Continuum hypothesis | Agnostic/undecided |
| Cosmological fine-tuning |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Eating animals and animal products | Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes) |
| Environmental ethics | Accept: non-anthropocentric |
| Epistemic justification | Agnostic/undecided |
| Experience machine | Accept an alternative view: Depends how well my real life was going. |
| Extended mind | Accept: no |
| External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Accept: don't push |
| Foundations of mathematics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Free will | Agnostic/undecided |
| Gender | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Gender categories | Accept: revise |
| God | Accept: atheism |
| Grounds of intentionality | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Lean towards: yes |
| Human genetic engineering | Accept an alternative view: Depends for what purpose. |
| Hume | Accept: naturalist |
| Immortality | Lean towards: yes |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Justification | Agnostic/undecided |
| Kant | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Knowledge | Lean towards: empiricism |
| Knowledge claims | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Law | Accept: legal positivism |
| Laws of nature | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Logic | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Material composition | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Meaning of life | Accept: subjective |
| Mental content | Lean towards: internalism |
| Meta-ethics | Accept: moral anti-realism |
| Metaontology | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Metaphilosophy | Lean towards: naturalism |
| Method in history of philosophy | Accept: contextual/historicist |
| Method in political philosophy | Accept: non-ideal theory |
| Mind | Accept: physicalism |
| Mind uploading | Accept: death |
| Moral judgment | Accept an alternative view: Cognitivism if belief does not imply representation; noncognitivism if it does. |
| Moral motivation | Accept: internalism |
| Moral principles | Accept: moral particularism |
| Morality |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Newcomb's problem | Accept: two boxes |
| Normative concepts | Accept an alternative view: Mutually irreducible |
| Normative ethics | Lean towards: deontology |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Ought implies can | Accept: yes |
| Perceptual experience | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Personal identity | There is no fact of the matter |
| Philosophical knowledge | Lean towards: a little |
| Philosophical methods | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Philosophical progress | Lean towards: a little |
| Plato | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Political philosophy | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Politics | Accept an alternative view: Social democracy/mixed economy |
| Possible worlds | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Practical reason |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Principle of sufficient reason | Accept: false |
| Proper names | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Properties | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Propositional attitudes | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Propositions | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Quantum mechanics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Race | Accept an alternative view: There are ethnic groups sufficiently distinct to count as 'race', but they don't match socially relevant races (esp. 'black' is a terrible grouping). |
| Race categories | Accept: revise |
| Rational disagreement | Lean towards: permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Science | Lean towards: scientific realism |
| Semantic content | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Sleeping beauty | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Spacetime | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Statue and lump | There is no fact of the matter |
| Teletransporter | Accept: death |
| Temporal ontology | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Theory of reference | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Time | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Time travel | Lean towards: metaphysically impossible |
| Trolley problem | Lean towards: switch |
| True contradictions | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Truth |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Units of selection | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Vagueness | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Values in science | Accept: necessarily value-free |
| Well-being | Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism |
| Wittgenstein | Accept: late |
| Zombies | Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible |