My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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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 |