My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
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| 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:
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| Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: justified true belief |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Accept: yes |
| Arguments for theism |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| 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:
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| Footbridge | Lean towards: don't push |
| Foundations of mathematics | Agnostic/undecided |
| Free will | Accept: libertarianism |
| Gender |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| 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:
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| Law | Accept: legal non-positivism |
| Laws of nature | Accept: non-Humean |
| Logic |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| Units of selection | Lean towards: genes |
| Vagueness |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Values in science | Accept: can be either |
| Well-being | Accept: objective list |
| Wittgenstein |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Zombies | Accept: metaphysically possible |