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Daniel G. Swaim

University of Pennsylvania
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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