My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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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 |