My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
Abortion Accept: permissible
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept wisdom
  • Lean against happiness
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
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.
Experience machine Accept: no
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Lean towards: no free will
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Gender: biological
  • Lean towards Gender: psychological
  • Lean towards Gender: social
God Accept: atheism
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Immortality Accept: yes
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Meta-ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Moral realism
  • Lean towards Moral anti-realism
  • Lean towards moral constructivism
Method in political philosophy Accept an alternative view: Both have value, but currently too much emphasis on ideal theory
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Non-naturalism about morality
  • Reject Naturalist realism about morality
  • Lean towards Eonstructivism about morality
  • Reject Expressivism about morality
  • Lean towards Error theory of morality
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:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept an alternative view: Ought implies could have
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress Agnostic/undecided
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
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