My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: psychological
God Accept: atheism
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Proper names Accept: Millian
Race Accept: biological
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: epistemic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
Truth Accept: correspondence
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Zombies Accept: inconceivable