My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Lean towards: yes |
| Abortion | Lean towards: impermissible |
| Abstract objects | Accept an alternative view: Debts, laws and other social objects are abstract and exist in time |
| Aesthetic experience | Lean towards: sui generis |
| Aesthetic value | Lean towards: objective |
| Aim of philosophy | Lean towards: truth/knowledge |
| Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: other analysis |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Accept: yes |
| Arguments for theism | There is no fact of the matter |
| Belief or credence | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Capital punishment | Agnostic/undecided |
| Causation | Lean towards: process/production |
| Chinese room | Accept: doesn't understand |
| Concepts |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Consciousness | Accept an alternative view: Consciousness is a physical process |
| Continuum hypothesis | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Lean towards: brute fact |
| Eating animals and animal products | Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes) |
| Environmental ethics | Accept: anthropocentric |
| Epistemic justification | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Experience machine | Accept: no |
| Extended mind | Lean towards: no |
| External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Lean towards: push |
| Foundations of mathematics | Accept: formalism |
| Free will | Lean towards: compatibilism |
| Gender | Accept: biological |
| Gender categories | The question is too unclear to answer |
| God | Accept: atheism |
| Grounds of intentionality | Lean towards: primitive |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: no |
| Human genetic engineering | Lean towards: permissible |
| Hume | Lean towards: skeptic |
| Immortality | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Lean towards: identity |
| Justification | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Kant | Accept: two worlds |
| Knowledge | Accept an alternative view: Much innate knowledge |
| Knowledge claims | There is no fact of the matter |
| Law | Accept an alternative view: some laws are positive laws |
| Laws of nature | Accept: non-Humean |
| Logic | Lean towards: classical |
| Material composition | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Meaning of life | Lean towards: objective |
| Mental content | Lean towards: internalism |
| Meta-ethics | Lean towards: moral realism |
| Metaontology | Accept: heavyweight realism |
| Metaphilosophy | Lean towards: naturalism |
| Method in history of philosophy | Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction |
| Method in political philosophy | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Mind | Accept: physicalism |
| Mind uploading | Accept: death |
| Moral judgment | Accept: non-cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Moral principles | Lean towards: moral generalism |
| Morality | Lean towards: naturalist realism |
| Newcomb's problem | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Normative concepts | Lean towards: value |
| Normative ethics | Accept an alternative view: Value ethics |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Ought implies can | Lean towards: no |
| Perceptual experience | Accept an alternative view: Direct realism a la J J Gibson |
| Personal identity | Accept: biological view |
| Philosophical knowledge | Lean towards: a lot |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Lean towards: a little |
| Plato | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Political philosophy | Lean towards: libertarianism |
| Politics | Accept: capitalism |
| Possible worlds | Lean towards: nonexistent |
| Practical reason | Accept: Aristotelian |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Lean towards: true |
| Proper names | Lean towards: Millian |
| Properties | Lean towards: immanent universals |
| Propositional attitudes | Lean towards: dispositional |
| Propositions | Lean towards: acts |
| Quantum mechanics | Lean towards: collapse |
| Race | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Race categories | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Rational disagreement | Lean towards: permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Accept: dogmatist |
| Science | Lean towards: scientific realism |
| Semantic content | Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate) |
| Sleeping beauty | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Spacetime | Lean towards: substantivalism |
| Statue and lump | Accept: one thing |
| Teletransporter | Accept: death |
| Temporal ontology | Lean towards: growing block |
| Theory of reference | Lean towards: causal |
| Time | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Time travel | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Trolley problem | Lean towards: switch |
| True contradictions | Accept: impossible |
| Truth | Accept: correspondence |
| Units of selection | Lean towards: genes |
| Vagueness | Lean towards: epistemic |
| Values in science | Lean towards: can be either |
| Well-being | Lean towards: objective list |
| Wittgenstein | Accept: early |
| Zombies | Accept: inconceivable |