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Andrew Dennis Bassford

Carnegie Mellon University
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Abortion is permissible
  • Lean against Abortion is impermissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Aesthetic values are objective
  • Lean towards Aesthetic values are subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Truth/knowledge is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Understanding is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Wisdom is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Happiness is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Goodness/justice is an important aim of philosophy
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Arguments for theism There is no fact of the matter
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Accept: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Lean towards: eliminate
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Grounding is the most useful relation in interlevel metaphysics
  • Accept Realization is the most useful relation in interlevel metaphysics
  • Accept Identity is the most useful relation in interlevel metaphysics
  • Accept Supervenience is the most useful relation in interlevel metaphysics
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Classical view of logic
  • Accept Non-classical view of logic
Meaning of life Lean towards: objective
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept I prefer the ideal theory method in political philosophy
  • Accept I prefer the non-ideal theory method in political philosophy
Mind Other
Mind uploading Accept: survival
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral principles Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Moral generalism
  • Lean towards Moral particularism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Normative concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Fit is the most fundamental normative concept
  • Lean towards Ought is the most fundamental normative concept
  • Lean towards Reason is the most fundamental normative concept
  • Lean towards Value is the most fundamental normative concept
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Adult humans are conscious
  • Accept Cats are conscious
  • Lean towards Fish are conscious
  • Lean towards Flies are conscious
  • Lean towards Worms are conscious
  • Reject Plants are conscious
  • Reject Particles are conscious
  • Lean towards Newborn babies are conscious
  • Lean towards Current AI systems are conscious
  • Accept Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept an alternative view: Aristotelian radical empiricism
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept a little
  • Lean towards a lot
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Communitarianism in political philosophy
  • Neutral towards Egalitarianism in political philosophy
  • Lean towards Libertarianism in political philosophy
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: concrete
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Accept: immanent universals
Propositions Accept: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: many-worlds
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: possible but non-actual
Truth Accept: correspondence
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: early
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible