My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| 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 |