Derek Shiller

Rethink Priorities

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects There is no fact of the matter
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction There is no fact of the matter
Arguments for theism Lean towards: pragmatic
Belief or credence Accept: neither
Capital punishment The question is too unclear to answer
Causation Agnostic/undecided
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness There is no fact of the matter
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: no free will
Gender The question is too unclear to answer
Gender categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness The question is too unclear to answer
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality The question is too unclear to answer
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: relativism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition There is no fact of the matter
Meaning of life There is no fact of the matter
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics There is no fact of the matter
Metaontology Accept: anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment There is no fact of the matter
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Accept an alternative view: Semantic indeterminacy
Newcomb's problem There is no fact of the matter
Normative concepts There is no fact of the matter
Normative ethics There is no fact of the matter
Other minds There is no fact of the matter
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Possible worlds The question is too unclear to answer
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Lean towards: nonexistent
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race The question is too unclear to answer
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty There is no fact of the matter
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept an alternative view: multi-level selection
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being There is no fact of the matter
Wittgenstein Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible