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Philosophy of Mathematics

Logic and Philosophy of Logic

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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt	Response
A priori knowledge	Accept: yes
Abortion	Accept: permissible
Abstract objects	Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Aesthetic experience is a form of perception Accept Aesthetic experience is a form of pleasure Accept Aesthetic experience is sui generis
Aesthetic value	Accept a combination of answers: Accept subjective Accept objective
Aim of philosophy	Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge	Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction	Accept: yes
Arguments for theism	Lean towards: design
Belief or credence	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Belief or credence: belief Accept Belief or credence: credence
Capital punishment	Accept: permissible
Causation	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Counterfactual/difference-making theories of causation Accept Process/production theories of causation Accept Primitivist theories of causation Reject Eliminativism about causation
Chinese room	Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts	Accept a combination of answers: Accept nativism Accept empiricism
Consciousness	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Dualism about phenomenal consciousness Reject Eliminativism about phenomenal consciousness Reject Functionalism about phenomenal consciousness Reject Type-identity theories of phenomenal consciousness Accept Panpsychism about consciousness
Continuum hypothesis	Accept: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning	Accept: design
Eating animals and animal products	Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics	Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Internalism about justification Accept Externalism about justification
Experience machine	Accept: no
Extended mind	Accept: yes
External world	Accept: idealism
Footbridge	Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics	Lean towards: set-theoretic
Free will	Accept: compatibilism
Gender	Accept a combination of answers: Reject Gender is biological Accept Gender is psychological Accept Gender is social Reject Gender is unreal
Gender categories	Lean towards: preserve
God	Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality	Accept: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness	Accept: no
Human genetic engineering	Accept: permissible
Hume	Accept a combination of answers: Accept skeptic Accept naturalist
Immortality	Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards supervenience Accept grounding Accept realization Accept identity
Justification	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Nonreliabilist foundationalism about justification Accept Infinitism about justification Accept Reliabilism about justification Lean towards Coherentism about justification
Kant	Accept: one world
Knowledge	Accept a combination of answers: Accept rationalism Accept empiricism
Knowledge claims	Accept: invariantism
Law	Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature	Accept: Humean
Logic	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Classical view of logic Accept Non-classical view of logic
Material composition	Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life	Accept: subjective
Mental content	Accept a combination of answers: Accept externalism Accept internalism
Meta-ethics	Accept: moral realism
Metaontology	Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Naturalism Accept Non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Accept I prefer a method of analytic/rational reconstruction in history of philosophy Reject I prefer a contextual/historicist method in history of philosophy
Method in political philosophy	Accept: ideal theory
Mind	Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading	Accept: survival
Moral judgment	Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation	Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles	Accept: moral generalism
Morality	Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem	Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts	Accept: fit
Normative ethics	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Deontology Lean towards Virtue ethics Accept Consequentialism
Other minds	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Adult humans are conscious Accept Cats are conscious Accept Fish are conscious Accept Flies are conscious Accept Worms are conscious Accept Plants are conscious Reject Particles are conscious Accept Newborn babies are conscious Lean against Current AI systems are conscious Lean against Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can	Accept: no
Perceptual experience	Accept a combination of answers: Accept representationalism Accept qualia theory
Personal identity	Accept a combination of answers: Reject Biological views of personal identity Accept Further-fact views of personal identity Accept Psychological views of personal identity
Philosophical knowledge	Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods	Accept a combination of answers: Accept conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Accept Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Accept Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Reject Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Lean against Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Accept Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Accept Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress	Accept: a lot
Plato	Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards Communitarianism in political philosophy Accept Egalitarianism in political philosophy Accept Libertarianism in political philosophy
Politics	Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds	Accept an alternative view: Following Williamson, I take possibilia to be neither abstract nor concrete. Abstracta are necessarily non-concrete and possibilia are contingently non-concrete.
Practical reason	Lean towards: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason	Accept: true
Proper names	Accept: Fregean
Properties	Accept: classes
Propositional attitudes	Accept: representational
Propositions	Lean towards: sets
Quantum mechanics	Lean towards: many-worlds
Race	Accept: social
Race categories	Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement	Accept: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism	Accept: abductive
Science	Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content	Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty	Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime	Accept: substantivalism
Statue and lump	Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter	Accept: survival
Temporal ontology	Accept: growing block
Theory of reference	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Causal theories of reference Accept Descriptive theories of reference Reject Deflationary theories of reference
Time	Accept: A-theory
Time travel	Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem	Accept: switch
True contradictions	Accept: impossible
Truth	Accept: correspondence
Units of selection	Accept: genes
Vagueness	Accept a combination of answers: Accept metaphysical Accept semantic Accept epistemic
Values in science	Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being	Accept a combination of answers: Accept desire satisfaction Lean against objective list Accept hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein	Accept: early
Zombies	Lean towards: metaphysically possible

David Elohim

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