My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Accept: yes |
| Abortion | Accept: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Accept: Platonism |
| Aesthetic experience | Accept: perception |
| Aesthetic value | Accept: objective |
| Aim of philosophy | Lean towards: truth/knowledge |
| Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: no analysis |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Accept an alternative view: sentential cases provide a view that is far better than your question, viz. Katz |
| Arguments for theism | There is no fact of the matter |
| Belief or credence | Accept: neither |
| Capital punishment | Accept: permissible |
| Causation |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Chinese room | Accept: understands |
| Concepts | Accept: nativism |
| Consciousness | Accept: eliminativism |
| Continuum hypothesis | Accept: determinate |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Accept: no fine-tuning |
| Eating animals and animal products | Accept an alternative view: animals should be eaten if killed by hunting, in no other case |
| Environmental ethics | Accept: non-anthropocentric |
| Epistemic justification | There is no fact of the matter |
| Experience machine | Accept: yes |
| Extended mind | Lean towards: no |
| External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Accept: don't push |
| Foundations of mathematics |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Free will | Accept: no free will |
| Gender | Accept: unreal |
| Gender categories | Accept: eliminate |
| God | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Grounds of intentionality | Lean towards: causal/teleological |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: no |
| Human genetic engineering | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Hume | Accept: skeptic |
| Immortality | Accept: no |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Lean towards: identity |
| Justification | Lean towards: infinitism |
| Kant | There is no fact of the matter |
| Knowledge | Accept: rationalism |
| Knowledge claims | Accept: contextualism |
| Law | Agnostic/undecided |
| Laws of nature | Accept: non-Humean |
| Logic |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Material composition | Accept: nihilism |
| Meaning of life | Accept: nonexistent |
| Mental content | Accept: externalism |
| Meta-ethics | Agnostic/undecided |
| Metaontology | Accept an alternative view: no idea of what is heavyweight of what? yes realism is by far preferable, if only for the good reason of pissing off the cretinous carnapians |
| Metaphilosophy | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Method in history of philosophy | Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction |
| Method in political philosophy | There is no fact of the matter |
| Mind | Accept: physicalism |
| Mind uploading | There is no fact of the matter |
| Moral judgment | Lean towards: non-cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | There is no fact of the matter |
| Moral principles | Lean towards: moral generalism |
| Morality | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Newcomb's problem | Accept: two boxes |
| Normative concepts | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Normative ethics | There is no fact of the matter |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Ought implies can | Accept: no |
| Perceptual experience | Lean towards: representationalism |
| Personal identity | Accept: biological view |
| Philosophical knowledge | Lean towards: a little |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Lean towards: a little |
| Plato | Lean towards: knowledge only of forms |
| Political philosophy | Accept an alternative view: proletarian dictatorship |
| Politics | Accept: socialism |
| Possible worlds | Accept: concrete |
| Practical reason | There is no fact of the matter |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Accept: true |
| Proper names | Accept an alternative view: names are predicates hence neither |
| Properties | Lean towards: immanent universals |
| Propositional attitudes | Lean towards: representational |
| Propositions | Lean towards: sets |
| Quantum mechanics | Lean towards: collapse |
| Race | Accept: unreal |
| Race categories | Accept: eliminate |
| Rational disagreement | Accept: permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Other |
| Science | Accept: scientific realism |
| Semantic content | Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all) |
| Sleeping beauty | Lean towards: one-third |
| Spacetime | Accept: relationism |
| Statue and lump | Accept: two things |
| Teletransporter | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Temporal ontology | Accept: eternalism |
| Theory of reference | Lean towards: deflationary |
| Time | Accept: B-theory |
| Time travel | Lean towards: metaphysically possible |
| Trolley problem | The question is too unclear to answer |
| True contradictions | Accept an alternative view: overdetermination generates contradictory states, whether those are logical facts is debatable |
| Truth | Accept: correspondence |
| Units of selection | Lean towards: organisms |
| Vagueness | Lean towards: epistemic |
| Values in science | Accept: can be either |
| Well-being | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Wittgenstein | Accept: early |
| Zombies | Accept: inconceivable |