My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism There is no fact of the matter
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept an alternative view: Grounded in laws and probabilistic independencies
Chinese room The question is too unclear to answer
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis Accept: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: logicism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Accept: naturalist
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: identity
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Kant Accept: two worlds
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims There is no fact of the matter
Law The question is too unclear to answer
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition The question is too unclear to answer
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: survival
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards deontology
  • Lean towards consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Accept worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Accept: qualia theory
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Reject conceptual analysis
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Reject linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Politics The question is too unclear to answer
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason The question is too unclear to answer
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Lean towards: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Accept: many-worlds
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards unreal
  • Lean towards biological
  • Lean towards social
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: epistemic externalist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty There is no fact of the matter
Spacetime The question is too unclear to answer
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept: organisms
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-free
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: early
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible