My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: pleasure
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Arguments for theism: cosmological
  • Reject Arguments for theism: design
  • Reject Arguments for theism: ontological
  • Reject Arguments for theism: pragmatic
  • Reject Arguments for theism: moral
Belief or credence Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: primitive
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: eliminativism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: yes
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Lean towards: skepticism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Accept: logicism
Free will Lean towards: no free will
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Grounds of intentionality: causal/teleological
  • Reject Grounds of intentionality: inferential
  • Reject Grounds of intentionality: interpretational
  • Reject Grounds of intentionality: phenomenal
  • Reject Grounds of intentionality: primitive
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Lean towards: nihilism
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: survival
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Accept: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Other minds: adult humans
  • Accept Other minds: cats
  • Accept Other minds: fish
  • Lean towards Other minds: flies
  • Neutral towards Other minds: worms
  • Lean against Other minds: plants
  • Reject Other minds: particles
  • Lean towards Other minds: newborn babies
  • Lean towards Other minds: current AI systems
  • Accept Other minds: future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: sense-datum theory
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical knowledge Accept: none
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
  • Lean against Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: true
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Lean towards: nonexistent
Propositional attitudes Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Propositional attitudes: dispositional
  • Lean towards Propositional attitudes: nonexistent
Propositions Lean towards: nonexistent
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Response to external-world skepticism: abductive
  • Reject Response to external-world skepticism: contextualist
  • Reject Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
  • Reject Response to external-world skepticism: epistemic externalist
  • Reject Response to external-world skepticism: semantic externalist
  • Reject Response to external-world skepticism: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Time There is no fact of the matter
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible