My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: pragmatic
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: permissible
Causation Lean towards: nonexistent
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts The question is too unclear to answer
Consciousness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Continuum hypothesis Accept: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: idealism
Footbridge There is no fact of the matter
Foundations of mathematics Agnostic/undecided
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Agnostic/undecided
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Human genetic engineering Agnostic/undecided
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Agnostic/undecided
Justification Agnostic/undecided
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic There is no fact of the matter
Material composition There is no fact of the matter
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Method in political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: error theory
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Neutral towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties There is no fact of the matter
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject hidden-variables
  • Reject epistemic
  • Reject many-worlds
  • Reject collapse
Race Accept: social
Race categories Agnostic/undecided
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science Accept: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Temporal ontology Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject eternalism
  • Reject presentism
  • Reject growing block
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem There is no fact of the matter
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Agnostic/undecided
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: inconceivable