My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept: pleasure
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: cosmological
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender The question is too unclear to answer
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: primitive
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Agnostic/undecided
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Kant Accept: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against deontology
  • Lean towards virtue ethics
  • Lean towards consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean against fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Accept: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Lean towards: tropes
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Agnostic/undecided
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: collapse
Race Lean towards: unreal
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept A-theory
  • Accept B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Agnostic/undecided
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept genes
  • Accept organisms
Vagueness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Accept: early
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible