Cambridge University
Faculty of Philosophy, Gonville and Caius College
PhD, 2014
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics
Normative Ethics

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
God Accept: atheism
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept internalism
  • Accept externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept consequentialism
  • Accept virtue ethics
  • Accept deontology
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: many-worlds
Race Accept: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Vagueness Accept an alternative view: Anti-realism
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible