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Andrew Mathiason

University of Virginia
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: goodness/justice
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: biological
God Lean towards: theism
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Kant Accept: two worlds
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Mind Agnostic/undecided
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral particularism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: disjunctivism
Personal identity Accept: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Accept: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Accept: communitarianism
Politics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Capitalism in politics
  • Accept Socialism in politics
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Properties Lean towards: transcendent universals
Race Accept: social
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: pragmatic
Science Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter Accept: death
Time Accept: A-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
Truth Accept: correspondence
Vagueness Accept: epistemic
Well-being Accept: objective list
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible