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Andrew Y. Lee

Australian National UniversityUniversity of Toronto at Scarborough
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New York University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2019
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Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind
Areas of Interest
Value Theory
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Science, Logic, and Mathematics
Cognitive Sciences

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
Main Questions
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: understanding
  • Neutral towards Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
  • Neutral towards Aim of philosophy: happiness
  • Neutral towards Aim of philosophy: wisdom
Analytic-synthetic distinction The question is too unclear to answer
Arguments for theism Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Belief or credence Agnostic/undecided
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Free will Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept no free will
  • Reject libertarianism
  • Accept compatibilism
Gender Insufficiently familiar with the issue
God Accept: atheism
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Meta-ethics: moral realism
  • Accept Meta-ethics: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Ought implies can Agnostic/undecided
Perceptual experience Accept: sense-datum theory
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
  • Accept Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
  • Accept Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept Philosophical methods: linguistic philosophy
  • Accept Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
  • Accept Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
  • Accept Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Race Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Zombies Accept: inconceivable
Survey Prompt Response
Additional Questions
Abortion Accept: permissible
Aesthetic experience Agnostic/undecided
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept: nativism
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Consciousness: dualism
  • Reject Consciousness: eliminativism
  • Reject Consciousness: functionalism
  • Accept Consciousness: identity theory
  • Neutral towards Consciousness: panpsychism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: multiverse
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Extended mind The question is too unclear to answer
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Gender categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Grounds of intentionality Accept: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Immortality The question is too unclear to answer
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: grounding
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind uploading There is no fact of the matter
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Morality: naturalist realism
  • Accept Morality: constructivism
Normative concepts Accept: value
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Neutral towards plants
  • Neutral towards particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Agnostic/undecided
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: dogmatist
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Values in science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Well-being: hedonism/experientialism
  • Lean against Well-being: desire satisfaction
  • Lean towards Well-being: objective list
Wittgenstein Insufficiently familiar with the issue