My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept happiness
  • Accept goodness/justice
Analysis of knowledge There is no fact of the matter
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject design
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject moral
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject ontological
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Accept an alternative view: Pluralism
Chinese room There is no fact of the matter
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Agnostic/undecided
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: yes
Extended mind There is no fact of the matter
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: formalism
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Lean towards: unreal
Gender categories Accept: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Agnostic/undecided
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: realization
Justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Agnostic/undecided
Logic Accept an alternative view: logical pluralism
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept non-cognitivism
  • Accept cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Neutral towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Reject conceptual analysis
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Agnostic/undecided
Political philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Politics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept socialism
  • Accept capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: nonexistent
Propositions Accept: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Lean towards: unreal
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept deflationary
  • Accept descriptive
  • Accept causal
Time Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept B-theory
  • Accept A-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: actual
Truth Accept: epistemic
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Accept an alternative view: Pluralism
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept desire satisfaction
  • Accept hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible