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Bruno Guindon

Simon Fraser University
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McGill University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2015
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Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics
Normative Ethics
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Philosophy of Action
Philosophy of Language
Applied Ethics
Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Value Theory
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept understanding
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Cosmological fine-tuning Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Epistemic justification The question is too unclear to answer
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
God Accept: atheism
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Hume Accept: naturalist
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: ethical pluralism
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Proper names Accept: Fregean
Race Accept: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Science Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter Agnostic/undecided
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept don't switch
  • Accept switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible