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:
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| Mental content |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Meta-ethics | Accept: moral anti-realism |
| Metaontology | Accept: heavyweight realism |
| Metaphilosophy | Accept: naturalism |
| Method in history of philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| Practical reason | Lean towards: Humean |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Lean towards: false |
| Proper names |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| 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:
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| Vagueness |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| 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 |