My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: structuralism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards unreal
  • Lean towards social
Gender categories Lean towards: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Agnostic/undecided
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: error theory
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: disjunctivism
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Agnostic/undecided
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: many-worlds
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards social
  • Lean towards unreal
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: epistemic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-third
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump The question is too unclear to answer
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible