My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Truth/knowledge is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Understanding is an important aim of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Wisdom is an important aim of philosophy
  • Reject Happiness is an important aim of philosophy
  • Reject Goodness/justice is an important aim of philosophy
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Eating animals and animal products Accept: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Lean towards: idealism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Gender categories should be preserved
  • Accept Gender categories should be revised
  • Lean towards Gender categories should be eliminated
God Accept: atheism
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Classical view of logic
  • Neutral towards Non-classical view of logic
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Mind Accept an alternative view: Non reductionist naturalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Agnostic/undecided
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Reason is the most fundamental normative concept
  • Lean towards Value is the most fundamental normative concept
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: pragmatism
Personal identity Accept an alternative view: Social
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Proper names Accept an alternative view: Hybrid Theory
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Science Accept: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Accept: radical contextualism (most or all)
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Agnostic/undecided
Truth Accept: deflationary
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible