University of California, Berkeley
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2006
Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept: perception
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: happiness
Analysis of knowledge Skipped
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Accept an alternative view: All of them are equally bad
Belief or credence Skipped
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room Skipped
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Skipped
Cosmological fine-tuning Skipped
Eating animals and animal products Skipped
Environmental ethics Skipped
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Skipped
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Skipped
Foundations of mathematics Skipped
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Skipped
Gender categories Skipped
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Skipped
Hume Accept: naturalist
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: supervenience
Justification Skipped
Kant Skipped
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: relativism
Law Skipped
Laws of nature Skipped
Logic Skipped
Material composition Skipped
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept: anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Skipped
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Skipped
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Skipped
Moral principles Accept: moral particularism
Morality Skipped
Newcomb's problem Skipped
Normative concepts Skipped
Normative ethics Skipped
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Accept worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject conceptual analysis
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Reject linguistic philosophy
  • Reject experimental philosophy
  • Reject conceptual engineering
  • Reject formal philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Skipped
Plato Skipped
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Skipped
Principle of sufficient reason Skipped
Proper names Accept: Fregean
Properties Accept: tropes
Propositional attitudes Accept: nonexistent
Propositions Skipped
Quantum mechanics Skipped
Race Accept: unreal
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Skipped
Response to external-world skepticism Skipped
Science Accept an alternative view: Singularist semirealism
Semantic content Accept: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Skipped
Spacetime Skipped
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Skipped
Temporal ontology Skipped
Theory of reference Accept: descriptive
Time Skipped
Time travel Skipped
Trolley problem Skipped
True contradictions Skipped
Truth Skipped
Units of selection The question is too unclear to answer
Vagueness Skipped
Values in science Accept an alternative view: Singularist semirealism
Well-being Accept: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Accept an alternative view: Neither
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible