My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Accept: perception
Aesthetic value Accept an alternative view: Ambiguity of aesthetic predicates
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: design
Belief or credence Accept: belief
Capital punishment Accept: permissible
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room Accept: understands
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Accept: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Agnostic/undecided
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: structuralism
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: inferential
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Agnostic/undecided
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards realization
  • Accept supervenience
  • Accept grounding
  • Lean towards identity
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life Lean towards: objective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading There is no fact of the matter
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept an alternative view: Part naturalist realism, part error theory
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Neutral towards current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Reject conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Reject experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Agnostic/undecided
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Accept: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Accept: unreal
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: minimalism (no more than a few)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: descriptive
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible