My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: impermissible
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: Augustinian Realism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Accept an alternative view: Arguments from Abstract Objects
Belief or credence Agnostic/undecided
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Accept an alternative view: Exercising of powers
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Accept an alternative view: hylomorphism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: logicism
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Lean towards: biological
Gender categories Accept: preserve
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: impermissible
Hume Accept: skeptic
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Kant Accept: two worlds
Knowledge Accept an alternative view: Aristotelian empiricism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject nihilism
  • Neutral towards universalism
  • Accept restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept an alternative view: Moral Value Platonism, Moral Judgement Skepticism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept: ideal theory
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject naturalist realism
  • Lean towards expressivism
  • Lean towards constructivism
  • Reject error theory
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: moral nonrealism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Reject flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean against newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: qualia theory
Personal identity Accept: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Accept an alternative view: Anarcho-Communism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Accept: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept: dispositional
Propositions Accept an alternative view: Abstract Objects
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: hidden-variables
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept social
  • Lean towards unreal
  • Lean towards biological
Race categories Agnostic/undecided
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: epistemic externalist
Science Accept an alternative view: Structural realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: presentism
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept: organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible