My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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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 |