University of Colorado, Boulder
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2015
APA Central Division

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:
  • Accept subjective
  • Accept objective
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:
  • Accept phenomenal
  • Accept primitive
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:
  • Accept objective
  • Accept subjective
Mental content Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept externalism
  • Accept internalism
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:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
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:
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Reject empirical philosophy
  • Lean against formal philosophy
  • Reject experimental philosophy
  • Reject conceptual engineering
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Accept phenomenology
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:
  • Accept late
  • Accept early
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible