My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: Conceptualism
Aesthetic experience Accept: pleasure
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: cosmological
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept: process/production
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis Agnostic/undecided
Cosmological fine-tuning Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: formalism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Lean towards: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: supervenience
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Lean towards: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading There is no fact of the matter
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Accept an alternative view: liberalism perfectionist
Politics Accept an alternative view: social-democracy
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Accept: classes
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Lean towards: acts
Quantum mechanics Accept: epistemic
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: dogmatist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: early
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible