Dawei Zhang

Southwest University

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: wisdom
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: biological
God Accept: atheism
Knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Logic Lean towards: classical
Meaning of life Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Meaning of life: subjective
  • Lean towards Meaning of life: objective
  • Neutral towards Meaning of life: nonexistent
Mental content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
  • Lean against Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: social
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible