My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Lean towards: no |
| Abortion | Accept: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Accept: nominalism |
| Aesthetic experience | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Aesthetic value | Accept: subjective |
| Aim of philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: justified true belief |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Agnostic/undecided |
| Arguments for theism | Lean towards: cosmological |
| Belief or credence | There is no fact of the matter |
| Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
| Causation | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Chinese room | Accept: doesn't understand |
| Concepts | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Consciousness | Agnostic/undecided |
| Continuum hypothesis | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Accept: no fine-tuning |
| Eating animals and animal products | Accept: veganism (no and no) |
| Environmental ethics | Accept an alternative view: Non-anthropocentric (since nature has instrumental value to animals too), but no intrinsic value to nature. |
| Epistemic justification | Lean towards: externalism |
| Experience machine | Accept: no |
| Extended mind | Lean towards: no |
| External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Accept: don't push |
| Foundations of mathematics | Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism |
| Free will | Lean towards: no free will |
| Gender |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Gender categories | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| God | Accept: atheism |
| Grounds of intentionality | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Lean towards: yes |
| Human genetic engineering | Lean towards: permissible |
| Hume | Lean towards: naturalist |
| Immortality | Accept: yes |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Justification | Lean towards: reliabilism |
| Kant | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Knowledge | Accept: empiricism |
| Knowledge claims | Accept an alternative view: Subject sensitive invariantism |
| Law | Accept: legal positivism |
| Laws of nature | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Logic | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Material composition | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Meaning of life | Accept: subjective |
| Mental content | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Meta-ethics | Accept: moral anti-realism |
| Metaontology | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Metaphilosophy | Lean towards: naturalism |
| Method in history of philosophy | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Method in political philosophy | Accept an alternative view: Both have value, but currently too much emphasis on ideal theory |
| Mind | Lean towards: physicalism |
| Mind uploading | Lean towards: death |
| Moral judgment | Lean towards: cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Lean towards: externalism |
| Moral principles | Lean towards: moral generalism |
| Morality | Accept: constructivism |
| Newcomb's problem | Accept: two boxes |
| Normative concepts | There is no fact of the matter |
| Normative ethics | Lean towards: deontology |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Ought implies can | Accept an alternative view: Ought implies could have |
| Perceptual experience | Lean towards: representationalism |
| Personal identity |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical knowledge | Accept: a lot |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Agnostic/undecided |
| Plato | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Political philosophy | Accept: egalitarianism |
| Politics | Accept: socialism |
| Possible worlds | Accept: nonexistent |
| Practical reason | Accept: Humean |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Lean towards: false |
| Proper names | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Properties | Agnostic/undecided |
| Propositional attitudes | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Propositions | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Quantum mechanics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Race | Lean towards: social |
| Race categories | Agnostic/undecided |
| Rational disagreement | Accept: permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Agnostic/undecided |
| Science | Lean towards: scientific realism |
| Semantic content | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Sleeping beauty | Agnostic/undecided |
| Spacetime | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Statue and lump | Accept: two things |
| Teletransporter | Lean towards: death |
| Temporal ontology | Agnostic/undecided |
| Theory of reference | Agnostic/undecided |
| Time | Agnostic/undecided |
| Time travel | Lean towards: metaphysically impossible |
| Trolley problem | Lean towards: don't switch |
| True contradictions | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Truth | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Units of selection | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Vagueness | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Values in science | Accept: necessarily value-laden |
| Well-being | Accept an alternative view: Hybrid: Beliefs about value for those who can form such beliefs, hedonism for those who can't |
| Wittgenstein | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Zombies | The question is too unclear to answer |