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Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology
General Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Social Science
Areas of Interest
Science, Logic, and Mathematics
Military Ethics
Social Epistemology
Naturalism
History of Western Philosophy
Philosophy of Social Science
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Belief or credence Accept: belief
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Agnostic/undecided
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards biological
  • Lean against psychological
  • Lean towards social
  • Lean against unreal
God Accept: atheism
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Kant Accept: one world
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept non-classical
  • Accept classical
Meaning of life There is no fact of the matter
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject unreal
  • Lean towards biological
  • Accept social
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: epistemic externalist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Time Accept: B-theory
Trolley problem Accept: don't switch
Truth Accept: correspondence
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Accept: can be either
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible