My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: Aristotelian realist. If mathematical objects exist they are probably not a-causal
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Accept an alternative view: I think there is something to be said for Hutchesonian sentimentalism, but this does run a risk of some relativism
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Accept: primitive
Chinese room Agnostic/undecided
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: yes
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Agnostic/undecided
Foundations of mathematics Accept an alternative view: Structuralism /Aristotelian realism
Free will Agnostic/undecided
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories The question is too unclear to answer
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Accept an alternative view: A skeptic about what reason justifies. A naturalist about the epistemic strategies that a qualified observer would approve.
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics The question is too unclear to answer
Justification The question is too unclear to answer
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards subjective
  • Lean towards nonexistent
Mental content Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards externalism
  • Lean towards internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards analytic/rational reconstruction
  • Lean towards contextual/historicist
  • Accept Necromantic. We resurrect the mighty dead to get into an argument with them.
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept: error theory
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Lean towards: ought
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean against fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept an alternative view: Not a conceptual truth though a fairly plausible moral and political principle
Perceptual experience The question is too unclear to answer
Personal identity Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Reject linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Agnostic/undecided
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Politics Accept an alternative view: Well I sort of accept capitalism but I want to see it radically revised. (Left social democrat.)
Possible worlds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards abstract
  • Accept The modal concepts are basic. Hence no need to reduce possibility and necessity to possible worlds.
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Millian
  • Lean towards Fregean
Properties Lean towards: tropes
Propositional attitudes Agnostic/undecided
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race The question is too unclear to answer
Race categories Accept an alternative view: Keep some for some purposes and eliminate others?
Rational disagreement Accept an alternative view: Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump The question is too unclear to answer
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology The question is too unclear to answer
Theory of reference Accept an alternative view: Sometimes causal sometimes descriptive.
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Agnostic/undecided
True contradictions Lean towards: actual
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards genes
  • Lean towards organisms
  • Lean towards groups
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept epistemic
  • Lean towards metaphysical
  • Accept semantic
Values in science The question is too unclear to answer
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept an alternative view: Hate them both. He was an authoritarian bully and the proponent of a coercive theory of meaning. Less intellectually dishonest in his earlier phase.
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible