My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Analytic-synthetic distinction There is no fact of the matter
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: yes
External world The question is too unclear to answer
Footbridge The question is too unclear to answer
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Lean towards: social
God Lean towards: atheism
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Naturalism
  • Reject Non-naturalism
Mind Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Physicalism about the mind
  • Reject Non-physicalism about the mind
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation The question is too unclear to answer
Newcomb's problem There is no fact of the matter
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Deontology
  • Reject Consequentialism
  • Reject Virtue ethics
Perceptual experience There is no fact of the matter
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Reject Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress There is no fact of the matter
Political philosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Race is biological
  • Accept Race is social
  • Reject Race is unreal
Science The question is too unclear to answer
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem There is no fact of the matter
Truth There is no fact of the matter
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Epistemic views of vagueness
  • Lean towards Metaphysical views of vagueness
  • Lean towards Semantic views of vagueness
Zombies There is no fact of the matter