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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Arguments for theism Accept: design
Belief or credence Agnostic/undecided
Capital punishment Agnostic/undecided
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: understands
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Lean towards: eliminativism
Continuum hypothesis Agnostic/undecided
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics There is no fact of the matter
Free will There is no fact of the matter
Gender Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: interpretational
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: supervenience
Justification Agnostic/undecided
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition There is no fact of the matter
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: 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: survival
Moral judgment Skipped
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Lean against particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Neutral towards current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names There is no fact of the matter
Properties Accept an alternative view: Properties are not real things; property-talk is an elliptical way of quantifying into predicate position
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Lean towards: simple entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: many-worlds
Race Skipped
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: dogmatist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth The question is too unclear to answer
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-free
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Agnostic/undecided
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible