My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: impermissible
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: Aristotelian moderate realism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards happiness
  • Accept wisdom
  • Lean towards goodness/justice
  • Lean towards understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept cosmological
  • Lean towards design
  • Lean against ontological
  • Lean towards moral
  • Lean towards pragmatic
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Agnostic/undecided
Causation Lean towards: primitive
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Agnostic/undecided
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 Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards structuralism
  • Reject logicism
  • Reject formalism
  • Lean against set-theoretic
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: biological
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards causal/teleological
  • Lean against inferential
  • Lean towards primitive
  • Lean against interpretational
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards grounding
  • Lean towards supervenience
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards analytic/rational reconstruction
  • Lean towards contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept an alternative view: Direct realism
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: true
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Lean towards: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Skipped
Propositions Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against sets
  • Lean against simple entities
  • Lean towards acts
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards dogmatist
  • Lean towards pragmatic
  • Lean towards epistemic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Skipped
Sleeping beauty Skipped
Spacetime Skipped
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: presentism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: A-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem The question is too unclear to answer
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Accept: organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Agnostic/undecided
Zombies The question is too unclear to answer