My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Aesthetic values are objective
  • Accept Aesthetic values are subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Truth/knowledge is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Understanding is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Wisdom is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean towards Happiness is an important aim of philosophy
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Process/production theories of causation
  • Lean towards Primitivist theories of causation
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Eliminativism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Accept Functionalism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Lean towards Type-identity theories of phenomenal consciousness
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards The multiverse explains cosmological fine-tuning
  • Lean towards Nothing explains cosmological fine-tuning
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Accept an alternative view: Concept of free will is incoherent
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Gender is biological
  • Accept Gender is psychological
  • Accept Gender is social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Immortality Accept: yes
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Agnostic/undecided
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Eonstructivism about morality
  • Lean towards Expressivism about morality
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Other minds: adult humans
  • Accept Other minds: cats
  • Lean towards Other minds: fish
  • Lean towards Other minds: flies
  • Neutral towards Other minds: worms
  • Lean against Other minds: plants
  • Reject Other minds: particles
  • Lean towards Other minds: newborn babies
  • Lean against Other minds: current AI systems
  • Lean towards Other minds: future AI systems
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Biological views of personal identity
  • Lean towards Psychological views of personal identity
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Political philosophy Accept: libertarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Lean towards: nonexistent
Propositional attitudes Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Dispositional views of propositional attitudes
  • Lean towards Representational views of propositional attitudes
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept: genes
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Zombies Lean towards: inconceivable