My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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A priori knowledge | Accept: yes |
Abortion | Accept: permissible |
Abstract objects | Accept: Platonism |
Aesthetic experience | The question is too unclear to answer |
Aesthetic value | Lean towards: subjective |
Aim of philosophy | Accept: understanding |
Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: other analysis |
Analytic-synthetic distinction | Accept: yes |
Arguments for theism | Accept: design |
Belief or credence | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
Causation | Lean towards: process/production |
Chinese room | Accept: doesn't understand |
Concepts | Accept: nativism |
Consciousness | Agnostic/undecided |
Continuum hypothesis | Accept: determinate |
Cosmological fine-tuning | Agnostic/undecided |
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 | Accept an alternative view: None of the above. |
Free will | Lean towards: compatibilism |
Gender | Accept: psychological |
Gender categories | Lean towards: eliminate |
God | Accept: atheism |
Grounds of intentionality | Accept: phenomenal |
Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: yes |
Human genetic engineering | Lean towards: impermissible |
Hume | The question is too unclear to answer |
Immortality | Accept: no |
Interlevel metaphysics | The question is too unclear to answer |
Justification | Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism |
Kant | Agnostic/undecided |
Knowledge | Accept: rationalism |
Knowledge claims | Accept: invariantism |
Law | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Laws of nature | Accept: non-Humean |
Logic | The question is too unclear to answer |
Material composition | Lean towards: restrictivism |
Meaning of life | Accept: subjective |
Mental content | Accept: internalism |
Meta-ethics | Accept: moral realism |
Metaontology | Accept: heavyweight realism |
Metaphilosophy | Accept: non-naturalism |
Method in history of philosophy | Accept an alternative view: Both are valuable. |
Method in political philosophy | Agnostic/undecided |
Mind | Agnostic/undecided |
Mind uploading | Accept: death |
Moral judgment | Accept: cognitivism |
Moral motivation | Accept: internalism |
Moral principles | Lean towards: moral generalism |
Morality | Lean towards: non-naturalism |
Newcomb's problem | Agnostic/undecided |
Normative concepts | Lean towards: value |
Normative ethics |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Ought implies can | Accept: no |
Perceptual experience | Accept: qualia theory |
Personal identity | Lean towards: psychological view |
Philosophical knowledge | Accept: a lot |
Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Philosophical progress | Accept an alternative view: More than a little, less than a lot. |
Plato | Accept: knowledge only of forms |
Political philosophy | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Politics | Lean towards: socialism |
Possible worlds | Lean towards: nonexistent |
Practical reason | Lean towards: Aristotelian |
Principle of sufficient reason | Accept: false |
Proper names | Accept: Fregean |
Properties | Accept: transcendent universals |
Propositional attitudes | The question is too unclear to answer |
Propositions | Accept: structured entities |
Quantum mechanics | Agnostic/undecided |
Race | Accept: unreal |
Race categories | The question is too unclear to answer |
Rational disagreement | The question is too unclear to answer |
Response to external-world skepticism | Accept: abductive |
Science | Accept: scientific realism |
Semantic content | Lean towards: minimalism (no more than a few) |
Sleeping beauty | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Spacetime | Accept: substantivalism |
Statue and lump | Accept an alternative view: The statue is essentially the lump-with-a-particular-shape, and is therefore not identical to the lump, which has no shape necessarily. They are, however, not distinct coincident objects. |
Teletransporter | Lean towards: survival |
Temporal ontology | Lean towards: eternalism |
Theory of reference | Accept an alternative view: Both description and causal relations play a role. |
Time | Lean towards: B-theory |
Time travel | Agnostic/undecided |
Trolley problem | Accept: switch |
True contradictions | Accept: impossible |
Truth | Accept: correspondence |
Units of selection | Lean towards: genes |
Vagueness | Accept: semantic |
Values in science | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Well-being | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Wittgenstein | Accept an alternative view: Neither |
Zombies | Agnostic/undecided |