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Daniel Vecchio

Victor Valley College
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  • Victor Valley College
    Tenure Track
Marquette University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2016

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: impermissible
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: Moderate realism
Aesthetic experience Accept: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept happiness
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept ontological
  • Accept moral
  • Accept cosmological
  • Accept design
  • Accept pragmatic
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Accept: primitive
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Accept an alternative view: Hylomorphic dualism, i.e. some aspects correlate with physical and others do not.
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: design
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against skepticism
  • Lean towards non-skeptical realism
  • Lean towards idealism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Agnostic/undecided
Free will Accept: libertarianism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept psychological
  • Lean against unreal
  • Lean towards social
  • Lean against biological
Gender categories There is no fact of the matter
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering The question is too unclear to answer
Hume Accept: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: identity
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards invariantism
  • Lean towards contextualism
  • Lean towards relativism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept classical
  • Accept non-classical
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: qualia theory
Personal identity Accept: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Accept an alternative view: Two different sense of knowledge.
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Politics Accept an alternative view: Distributivism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: true
Proper names Accept: Fregean
Properties Accept: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Lean towards: simple entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: collapse
Race Accept: biological
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism The question is too unclear to answer
Science Accept an alternative view: Science as practiced is anti-real, but could be real under a different practice.
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: descriptive
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept correspondence
  • Reject epistemic
  • Accept deflationary
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept semantic
  • Accept epistemic
  • Lean towards metaphysical
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards late
  • Lean against early
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible