My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: understands
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards functionalism
  • Lean towards panpsychism
Continuum hypothesis Accept: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: logicism
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept social
  • Accept biological
  • Reject unreal
  • Accept psychological
Gender categories Lean towards: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards interpretational
  • Lean towards causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life Lean towards: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Neutral towards newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Humean
  • Lean towards Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Lean towards: classes
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Accept: sets
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: many-worlds
Race Lean towards: unreal
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: epistemic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-third
Spacetime Accept: substantivalism
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept A-theory
  • Accept B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-free
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible