My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept happiness
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Accept truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: ontological
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Accept: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept an alternative view: Depends. What is the purpose of foundations?
Free will Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: realization
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Accept: one world
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life There is no fact of the matter
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept analytic/rational reconstruction
  • Accept contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: disjunctivism
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Accept: acts
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: pragmatic
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: minimalism (no more than a few)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept an alternative view: Primitivism
Units of selection Accept: organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible