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David Faraci

Durham University
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Bowling Green State University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2012
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Durham, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics
Meta-Ethics
Epistemology
Business Ethics
Normative Ethics
Social and Political Philosophy
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Areas of Interest
Moral Naturalism and Non-Naturalism
Moral Realism and Irrealism
Moral Epistemology
Moral Responsibility
Epistemic Normativity
Knowledge
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against libertarianism
  • Lean against compatibilism
  • Lean against no free will
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards revise
  • Lean against preserve
  • Lean towards eliminate
God Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Lean towards: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept an alternative view: "Realism or bust"
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Mind Agnostic/undecided
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject constructivism
  • Reject non-naturalism
  • Lean towards naturalist realism
  • Reject expressivism
  • Lean towards error theory
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject virtue ethics
  • Reject consequentialism
  • Reject deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Agnostic/undecided
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject libertarianism
  • Reject communitarianism
  • Reject egalitarianism
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject biological
Science Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Agnostic/undecided
Time Agnostic/undecided
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
Truth Agnostic/undecided
Vagueness Agnostic/undecided
Zombies Agnostic/undecided