My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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A priori knowledge | Accept: yes |
Abortion | Accept: permissible |
Abstract objects | The question is too unclear to answer |
Aesthetic experience | Accept: sui generis |
Aesthetic value |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Aim of philosophy | Accept: wisdom |
Analysis of knowledge | Accept: no analysis |
Analytic-synthetic distinction | Accept: yes |
Arguments for theism | Lean towards: pragmatic |
Belief or credence | Accept: belief |
Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
Causation | Accept: primitive |
Chinese room | Accept: doesn't understand |
Concepts | Accept an alternative view: Some concepts are empirical, some are transcendentally ideal |
Consciousness | Accept an alternative view: Foundational |
Continuum hypothesis | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Cosmological fine-tuning | Accept: no fine-tuning |
Eating animals and animal products | Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes) |
Environmental ethics | Accept: anthropocentric |
Epistemic justification | Accept: internalism |
Experience machine | Accept: no |
Extended mind | Accept: yes |
External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
Footbridge | Accept: don't push |
Foundations of mathematics | Accept an alternative view: Transcendental Idealism |
Free will | Accept: libertarianism |
Gender | Accept: social |
Gender categories | Lean towards: revise |
God | Accept an alternative view: Radical Agnosticism: Knowledge of the existence and of the non-existence of a spatiotemporally transcendent being is metaphysically impossible |
Grounds of intentionality |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: yes |
Human genetic engineering | Accept: permissible |
Hume | Accept: naturalist |
Immortality | Accept: no |
Interlevel metaphysics | Lean towards: supervenience |
Justification | Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism |
Kant | Accept: one world |
Knowledge | Accept: rationalism |
Knowledge claims | Agnostic/undecided |
Law | Lean towards: legal positivism |
Laws of nature | Accept: non-Humean |
Logic | Accept: classical |
Material composition | Accept: restrictivism |
Meaning of life |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Mental content |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Meta-ethics | Accept: moral realism |
Metaontology | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Metaphilosophy | Accept: non-naturalism |
Method in history of philosophy | Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction |
Method in political philosophy | Accept: ideal theory |
Mind | Accept: non-physicalism |
Mind uploading | Accept an alternative view: Metaphysically impossible |
Moral judgment | Accept: cognitivism |
Moral motivation | Accept: internalism |
Moral principles | Accept: moral generalism |
Morality | Accept: non-naturalism |
Newcomb's problem | The question is too unclear to answer |
Normative concepts | Accept: reasons |
Normative ethics | Accept: deontology |
Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Ought implies can | Accept: yes |
Perceptual experience | Accept: disjunctivism |
Personal identity | Lean towards: further-fact view |
Philosophical knowledge | Accept: a lot |
Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Philosophical progress | Accept: a lot |
Plato | Agnostic/undecided |
Political philosophy | Accept: communitarianism |
Politics | Accept an alternative view: Communism |
Possible worlds | Accept: nonexistent |
Practical reason | Accept: Kantian |
Principle of sufficient reason | Accept: false |
Proper names | Lean towards: Millian |
Properties | Accept: immanent universals |
Propositional attitudes | Accept: phenomenal |
Propositions | Accept: simple entities |
Quantum mechanics | Accept: epistemic |
Race | Accept: unreal |
Race categories | Lean towards: preserve |
Rational disagreement | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Response to external-world skepticism | Accept an alternative view: Not an actual problem—the "problem" relies on a misunderstanding of perception and the mind–world connection |
Science | Accept: scientific realism |
Semantic content | Accept: radical contextualism (most or all) |
Sleeping beauty | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Spacetime | Accept an alternative view: Transcendentally Ideal |
Statue and lump | Accept: two things |
Teletransporter | Accept: death |
Temporal ontology | Lean towards: presentism |
Theory of reference | Accept an alternative view: Phenomenal |
Time | Accept an alternative view: Transcendental Idealism |
Time travel | Accept: metaphysically impossible |
Trolley problem | Accept: switch |
True contradictions | Accept: impossible |
Truth | Accept: correspondence |
Units of selection | There is no fact of the matter |
Vagueness | Accept: semantic |
Values in science | Accept: can be either |
Well-being | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Wittgenstein |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Zombies | Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible |