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Andrew M. Bailey

National University of Singapore
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Accept: design
Belief or credence Agnostic/undecided
Capital punishment Accept: permissible
Causation The question is too unclear to answer
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts The question is too unclear to answer
Consciousness Accept: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Agnostic/undecided
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: design
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Agnostic/undecided
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge The question is too unclear to answer
Foundations of mathematics Agnostic/undecided
Free will Accept an alternative view: Semi-compatibilism
Gender The question is too unclear to answer
Gender categories The question is too unclear to answer
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality The question is too unclear to answer
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject identity
  • Reject supervenience
  • Reject grounding
  • Reject realization
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Accept objective
  • Accept subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind The question is too unclear to answer
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles The question is too unclear to answer
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem The question is too unclear to answer
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Reject fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience The question is too unclear to answer
Personal identity The question is too unclear to answer
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject none
  • Accept a lot
  • Accept a little
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject libertarianism
  • Reject egalitarianism
  • Reject communitarianism
Politics The question is too unclear to answer
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Fregean
Properties Accept: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Accept representational
  • Neutral towards phenomenal
  • Neutral towards dispositional
Propositions Accept: simple entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race The question is too unclear to answer
Race categories The question is too unclear to answer
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: dogmatist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty The question is too unclear to answer
Spacetime The question is too unclear to answer
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference The question is too unclear to answer
Time The question is too unclear to answer
Time travel Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem The question is too unclear to answer
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth The question is too unclear to answer
Units of selection Agnostic/undecided
Vagueness Accept: epistemic
Values in science Agnostic/undecided
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject early
  • Reject late
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible