My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject design
  • Reject ontological
  • Reject moral
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Agnostic/undecided
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics The question is too unclear to answer
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge The question is too unclear to answer
Foundations of mathematics Agnostic/undecided
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: biological
Gender categories Accept: preserve
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: interpretational
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Agnostic/undecided
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: disjunctivism
Personal identity Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: libertarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Agnostic/undecided
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Fregean
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Agnostic/undecided
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Accept: preserve
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: contextualist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Agnostic/undecided
Temporal ontology Agnostic/undecided
Theory of reference Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept causal
  • Accept descriptive
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept an alternative view: You do travel foward but cannot travel backwards
Trolley problem There is no fact of the matter
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-free
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: inconceivable