My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| 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 |