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Bradley Rettler

University of Wyoming
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University of Notre Dame
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2014
APA Central Division
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Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Religion
Economics and Justice
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Philosophy of Language
Applied Ethics
History of Western Philosophy
PhilPapers Editorships
Simples and Gunk

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept understanding
  • Neutral towards happiness
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept goodness/justice
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept design
  • Accept cosmological
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: design
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: structuralism
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject identity
  • Accept realization
  • Accept grounding
  • Reject supervenience
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Lean towards: nihilism
Meaning of life Lean towards: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept contextual/historicist
  • Accept analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean against cats
  • Reject fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Lean towards: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: phenomenal
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: collapse
Race Accept: social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: dogmatist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Lean towards: one-third
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Lean towards: presentism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible