My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept: pleasure
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards goodness/justice
  • Accept understanding
  • Neutral towards happiness
  • Accept wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Analytic-synthetic distinction Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Arguments for theism There is no fact of the matter
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
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 Accept: yes
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Agnostic/undecided
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender categories The question is too unclear to answer
God Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality The question is too unclear to answer
Hard problem of consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Lean towards: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Agnostic/undecided
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: pragmatic
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible