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Andrew Peet

Umeå University
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  • Umeå University
    Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
    Associate Professor
University of St. Andrews
PhD, 2015
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Umeå, Västerbotten County, Sweden
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology
Philosophy of Language
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Action
Value Theory
Feminist Epistemology
Feminist Philosophy of Language
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards understanding
  • Lean towards wisdom
  • Lean against happiness
  • Lean against goodness/justice
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Agnostic/undecided
Arguments for theism Agnostic/undecided
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment Agnostic/undecided
Causation Agnostic/undecided
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Continuum hypothesis Agnostic/undecided
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Agnostic/undecided
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: no free will
Gender Agnostic/undecided
Gender categories Agnostic/undecided
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject inferential
  • Lean towards causal/teleological
  • Lean towards interpretational
  • Reject primitive
  • Neutral towards phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Agnostic/undecided
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Agnostic/undecided
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Agnostic/undecided
Material composition Lean towards: nihilism
Meaning of life Agnostic/undecided
Mental content The question is too unclear to answer
Meta-ethics Agnostic/undecided
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Method in political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Agnostic/undecided
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Moral principles Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Morality Agnostic/undecided
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against virtue ethics
  • Lean towards consequentialism
  • Lean towards deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against qualia theory
  • Lean towards representationalism
  • Lean towards disjunctivism
  • Reject sense-datum theory
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Agnostic/undecided
Practical reason Agnostic/undecided
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names The question is too unclear to answer
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Agnostic/undecided
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Agnostic/undecided
Race categories Lean towards: preserve
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: epistemic externalist
Science Agnostic/undecided
Semantic content Accept: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject presentism
  • Lean towards eternalism
  • Lean towards growing block
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against epistemic
  • Lean towards correspondence
  • Neutral towards deflationary
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Other
Values in science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being Agnostic/undecided
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: inconceivable