My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: impermissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Accept: neither
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: primitive
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept: nativism
Consciousness Accept: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: design
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
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: structuralism
Free will Accept: libertarianism
Gender Accept: biological
Gender categories Accept: preserve
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Agnostic/undecided
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Agnostic/undecided
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept externalism
  • Accept internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics The question is too unclear to answer
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Lean against particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: libertarianism
Politics Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Lean towards: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes The question is too unclear to answer
Propositions Lean towards: simple entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: collapse
Race Lean towards: biological
Race categories Agnostic/undecided
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Lean towards: one-third
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: descriptive
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-free
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible