My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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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 |