My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Accept an alternative view: There is a priori knowledge but it is revisable. |
| Abortion | Lean towards: impermissible |
| Abstract objects | Accept: Platonism |
| Aesthetic experience | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Aesthetic value | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Aim of philosophy | Accept: truth/knowledge |
| Analysis of knowledge | Accept: other analysis |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Accept: no |
| Arguments for theism | Accept an alternative view: None of them is much good. |
| Belief or credence | Accept: belief |
| Capital punishment | Accept: permissible |
| Causation | Lean towards: primitive |
| Chinese room | Accept: doesn't understand |
| Concepts | Lean towards: nativism |
| Consciousness | Lean towards: dualism |
| Continuum hypothesis | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Eating animals and animal products | Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes) |
| Environmental ethics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Epistemic justification | Accept an alternative view: There can be no epistemic justification (Karl Popper) |
| Experience machine | Accept: no |
| Extended mind | Lean towards: yes |
| External world | Accept: skepticism |
| Footbridge | Accept: don't push |
| Foundations of mathematics | Agnostic/undecided |
| Free will | Accept: libertarianism |
| Gender | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Gender categories | The question is too unclear to answer |
| God | Agnostic/undecided |
| Grounds of intentionality | Lean towards: primitive |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: yes |
| Human genetic engineering | Accept: permissible |
| Hume | Accept: naturalist |
| Immortality | Agnostic/undecided |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Justification | Accept an alternative view: Fallible but revisable conjectures (Karl Popper) |
| Kant | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Knowledge | Accept an alternative view: Critical rationalism (Karl Popper): reason tempered by criticism, including empirical testing. |
| Knowledge claims | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Law | Accept: legal non-positivism |
| Laws of nature | Accept: non-Humean |
| Logic | Accept: classical |
| Material composition | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Meaning of life | Lean towards: objective |
| Mental content | Accept an alternative view: Internal and external components |
| Meta-ethics | Accept: moral realism |
| Metaontology | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Metaphilosophy | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Method in history of philosophy | Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction |
| Method in political philosophy | Agnostic/undecided |
| Mind | Lean towards: non-physicalism |
| Mind uploading | Accept: death |
| Moral judgment | Accept: cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Moral principles | Accept: moral generalism |
| Morality | Lean towards: naturalist realism |
| Newcomb's problem | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Normative concepts | Lean towards: value |
| Normative ethics | Accept: deontology |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Ought implies can | Accept: yes |
| Perceptual experience | Agnostic/undecided |
| 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 | Agnostic/undecided |
| Political philosophy | Accept: libertarianism |
| Politics | Accept an alternative view: Minimal state libertarianism |
| Possible worlds | Lean towards: abstract |
| Practical reason | Accept an alternative view: Straightforward deductive reasoning. |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Accept: false |
| Proper names | Accept an alternative view: Rigid designators with sense/connotation (equivalent to the actual F) |
| Properties | Accept: transcendent universals |
| Propositional attitudes | Accept: representational |
| Propositions | Accept: simple entities |
| Quantum mechanics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Race | Accept: biological |
| Race categories | Lean towards: eliminate |
| Rational disagreement | Accept: permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Accept an alternative view: None of the responses is any good. |
| Science | Accept an alternative view: All our scientific theories are false but they speak about an objective world |
| Semantic content | Accept: radical contextualism (most or all) |
| Sleeping beauty | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Spacetime | Agnostic/undecided |
| Statue and lump | Agnostic/undecided |
| Teletransporter | Accept: death |
| Temporal ontology | Lean towards: presentism |
| Theory of reference | Accept an alternative view: A mixture of descriptive and contextual |
| Time | Accept: A-theory |
| Time travel | Lean towards: metaphysically impossible |
| Trolley problem | Accept: switch |
| True contradictions | Lean towards: impossible |
| Truth | Accept: correspondence |
| Units of selection | Agnostic/undecided |
| Vagueness | Lean towards: semantic |
| Values in science | Lean towards: necessarily value-free |
| Well-being | Accept: objective list |
| Wittgenstein | Accept an alternative view: Neither. |
| Zombies | Lean towards: metaphysically possible |