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Chris Swoyer

University of Oklahoma
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Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Skipped
Aesthetic value Other
Aim of philosophy Skipped
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject ontological
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject design
  • Reject moral
Belief or credence Skipped
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Lean towards process/production
  • Lean against counterfactual/difference-making
  • Reject primitive
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Accept: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Skipped
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept externalism
  • Accept internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept an alternative view: No foundations
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: biological
Gender categories Lean towards: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: inferential
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept naturalist
  • Accept skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: realization
Justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept coherentism
  • Accept reliabilism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic The question is too unclear to answer
Material composition Skipped
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept contextual/historicist
  • Accept analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept an alternative view: No theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Skipped
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Skipped
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept reasons
  • Accept ought
  • Accept fit
  • Accept value
Normative ethics Other
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: qualia theory
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Skipped
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Lean towards: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept: dispositional
Propositions Accept: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: collapse
Race Accept: social
Race categories Skipped
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: pragmatic
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Skipped
Spacetime Skipped
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Skipped
Temporal ontology Skipped
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept A-theory
  • Accept B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Skipped
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject metaphysical
  • Accept epistemic
  • Accept semantic
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Skipped
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible