My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Lean towards: pragmatic
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room The question is too unclear to answer
Concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards nativism
  • Lean towards empiricism
Consciousness Accept: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards multiverse
  • Lean towards brute fact
  • Reject design
  • Reject no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics The question is too unclear to answer
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards externalism
  • Neutral towards internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept social
  • Accept biological
  • Lean towards psychological
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Accept: naturalist
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Justification Accept: coherentism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject rationalism
  • Lean towards empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards classical
  • Lean against non-classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards externalism
  • Lean towards internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards contextual/historicist
  • Lean towards analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards expressivism
  • Lean towards naturalist realism
  • Lean towards constructivism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean against fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject 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: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards communitarianism
  • Reject libertarianism
  • Lean towards egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Humean
  • Lean against Kantian
  • Lean towards Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason The question is too unclear to answer
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Lean towards: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Agnostic/undecided
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards descriptive
  • Reject deflationary
  • Lean towards causal
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: possible but non-actual
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept an alternative view: actualization of capabilities
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible