My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept wisdom
  • Reject happiness
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
  • Reject goodness/justice
  • Accept understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Lean towards: pragmatic
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Accept: nonexistent
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: eliminativism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products The question is too unclear to answer
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: yes
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Agnostic/undecided
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: relativism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept non-classical
  • Accept classical
Material composition Lean towards: nihilism
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: error theory
Newcomb's problem The question is too unclear to answer
Normative concepts Lean towards: fit
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards consequentialism
  • Reject deontology
  • Neutral towards virtue ethics
  • Neutral towards ethics of care
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Accept worms
  • Neutral towards plants
  • Lean against particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Neutral towards current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: disjunctivism
Personal identity Accept: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Reject conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress The question is too unclear to answer
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason The question is too unclear to answer
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Agnostic/undecided
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: revise
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science Lean towards: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-third
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Accept an alternative view: Many things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Agnostic/undecided
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible