My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Accept: yes |
| Abortion | Accept: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Accept an alternative view: No important distinction between abstract and concrete |
| Aesthetic experience | Agnostic/undecided |
| Aesthetic value | Lean towards: objective |
| Aim of philosophy | Accept: truth/knowledge |
| Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: no analysis |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Accept: yes |
| Arguments for theism | Lean towards: cosmological |
| Belief or credence | Agnostic/undecided |
| Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
| Causation | Lean towards: primitive |
| Chinese room | Lean towards: doesn't understand |
| Concepts | Agnostic/undecided |
| Consciousness | Agnostic/undecided |
| Continuum hypothesis | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Eating animals and animal products | Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes) |
| Environmental ethics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Epistemic justification | Lean towards: internalism |
| Experience machine | Lean towards: no |
| Extended mind | Accept: no |
| External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Lean towards: don't push |
| Foundations of mathematics | Lean towards: structuralism |
| Free will | Accept: compatibilism |
| Gender | Lean towards: social |
| Gender categories | Accept: revise |
| God | Accept: atheism |
| Grounds of intentionality | Lean towards: causal/teleological |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Lean towards: no |
| Human genetic engineering | Accept: permissible |
| Hume | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Immortality | Lean towards: yes |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Accept: grounding |
| Justification | Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism |
| Kant | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Knowledge | Accept an alternative view: No important distinction |
| Knowledge claims | Accept: invariantism |
| Law | Agnostic/undecided |
| Laws of nature | Accept: non-Humean |
| Logic | Accept: non-classical |
| Material composition | Accept: restrictivism |
| Meaning of life | Accept: nonexistent |
| Mental content | Accept: externalism |
| Meta-ethics | Accept: moral realism |
| Metaontology | Accept: heavyweight realism |
| Metaphilosophy | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Method in history of philosophy | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Method in political philosophy | Accept: non-ideal theory |
| Mind | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Mind uploading | Accept: death |
| Moral judgment | Accept: cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Moral principles | Lean towards: moral particularism |
| Morality | Agnostic/undecided |
| Newcomb's problem | Lean towards: two boxes |
| Normative concepts | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Normative ethics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Ought implies can | Accept: yes |
| Perceptual experience | Agnostic/undecided |
| Personal identity | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Philosophical knowledge | Accept: a lot |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Lean towards: a lot |
| Plato | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Political philosophy | Accept: communitarianism |
| Politics | Accept: socialism |
| Possible worlds | Accept an alternative view: One possible world and many ways the world could and couldn’t be |
| Practical reason | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Lean towards: false |
| Proper names | Accept: Millian |
| Properties | Lean towards: immanent universals |
| Propositional attitudes | Accept: representational |
| Propositions | Accept: structured entities |
| Quantum mechanics | Agnostic/undecided |
| Race | Lean towards: social |
| Race categories | Lean towards: eliminate |
| Rational disagreement | Accept: non-permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Accept: dogmatist |
| Science | Accept: scientific realism |
| Semantic content | Accept: minimalism (no more than a few) |
| Sleeping beauty | Agnostic/undecided |
| Spacetime | Accept: substantivalism |
| Statue and lump | Accept: two things |
| Teletransporter | Accept: death |
| Temporal ontology | Agnostic/undecided |
| Theory of reference | Accept: causal |
| Time | Accept: A-theory |
| Time travel | Accept: metaphysically possible |
| Trolley problem | Accept: switch |
| True contradictions | Accept: impossible |
| Truth | Accept an alternative view: A form of identity view |
| Units of selection | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Vagueness |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Values in science | Accept: can be either |
| Well-being | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Wittgenstein |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Zombies | Lean towards: inconceivable |