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Daniel Greco

Yale University
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
PhD, 2012
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind
Meta-Ethics
Philosophy of Probability
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Epistemology
Formal Epistemology
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept truth/knowledge
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Continuum hypothesis Accept: indeterminate
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept social
  • Reject unreal
  • Accept psychological
  • Accept biological
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards inferential
  • Reject primitive
  • Lean towards causal/teleological
  • Reject phenomenal
  • Lean towards interpretational
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject egalitarianism
  • Reject communitarianism
  • Reject libertarianism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Lean towards: sets
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept social
  • Reject unreal
  • Accept biological
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Accept: deflationary
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Zombies Lean towards: inconceivable