University of Illinois, Chicago
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2011
APA Western Division
San Francisco, California, United States of America

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Accept: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: design
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Accept: permissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: libertarianism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: preserve
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: primitive
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Accept: two worlds
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept: libertarianism
Politics Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: true
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Accept: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions The question is too unclear to answer
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-half
Spacetime Accept: substantivalism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: don't switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-free
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Accept: inconceivable