My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
---|---|
A priori knowledge | Accept: yes |
Abortion | Accept an alternative view: Permissible in the first trimester. Impermissible once it has sensations/feelings of its own (probably 20 weeks in). Law should err on the side of caution, though. |
Abstract objects | Accept: nominalism |
Aesthetic experience |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
Aesthetic value | Lean towards: objective |
Aim of philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
Analysis of knowledge | Accept an alternative view: Justified true belief, but "justified" must be understood in way that avoids Gettier |
Analytic-synthetic distinction | Accept: yes |
Arguments for theism | Accept an alternative view: Hermeneutical: Analyze the term "god" (adequately) in such a way that the main religious tenets come out true. |
Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
Chinese room | The question is too unclear to answer |
Continuum hypothesis | Accept: indeterminate |
Cosmological fine-tuning | Accept an alternative view: Some version of anthropic principle |
Eating animals and animal products |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
Epistemic justification | Accept: internalism |
Experience machine | Accept: no |
External world | Accept: idealism |
Footbridge | Accept: don't push |
Foundations of mathematics | Accept: constructivism/intuitionism |
Free will | Accept: libertarianism |
Gender |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
God | Accept an alternative view: Depends on which meaning is assigned to the expression "god" |
Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: no |
Hume |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
Immortality | Accept: no |
Interlevel metaphysics |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
Kant | Accept: two worlds |
Knowledge | Accept: rationalism |
Knowledge claims |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
Law | Accept: legal non-positivism |
Laws of nature | Accept: non-Humean |
Logic | Accept: non-classical |
Meaning of life |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
Mental content | Accept: internalism |
Meta-ethics | Accept an alternative view: Instead of the term "realism" I would prefer "moral objectivism" or "moral universalism" |
Metaontology | Accept an alternative view: anti-realism, but in the specific sense of the principle of knowability |
Metaphilosophy | Accept: non-naturalism |
Method in history of philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
Mind | Accept: non-physicalism |
Mind uploading | Accept: death |
Moral judgment | Accept: cognitivism |
Moral motivation | Accept: internalism |
Moral principles | Accept: moral generalism |
Morality | The question is too unclear to answer |
Newcomb's problem | There is no fact of the matter |
Normative ethics | Accept: deontology |
Other minds | The question is too unclear to answer |
Ought implies can | Accept: yes |
Perceptual experience | The question is too unclear to answer |
Personal identity |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
Philosophical knowledge | Accept: a lot |
Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
Philosophical progress | Accept: a lot |
Political philosophy | Accept an alternative view: We need a synthesis of those three |
Politics | Accept an alternative view: social market economy as a synthesis of both |
Possible worlds | Accept: abstract |
Practical reason | Accept: Kantian |
Principle of sufficient reason | Accept an alternative view: Depends on what it is supposed to say. If "reason"="cause", then false. "Reason" must be understood in a wider sense for the principle to be true. |
Proper names | The question is too unclear to answer |
Properties | Accept: immanent universals |
Propositional attitudes | Accept: dispositional |
Propositions |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
Quantum mechanics | Accept an alternative view: I accept a version of the Kopenhagen interpretation |
Race | Accept: unreal |
Race categories | Accept: eliminate |
Rational disagreement | The question is too unclear to answer |
Response to external-world skepticism | Accept an alternative view: transcendental combined with principle of knowability |
Science | Accept an alternative view: Premises: Substitutional view of quantification and principle of knowability. On this background (directly) unobservable objects can be said to exist (and instrumentalism rejected). |
Spacetime | Accept: relationism |
Statue and lump | Accept: two things |
Teletransporter | Accept: death |
Time | Accept an alternative view: Both, but for this to be true the future must be "open" i.e. the B-series is never "complete" |
Time travel | Accept: metaphysically impossible |
Trolley problem | Accept: don't switch |
True contradictions | Accept: impossible |
Truth | Accept: epistemic |
Units of selection | Accept: organisms |
Vagueness | Accept: semantic |
Values in science | Accept: can be either |
Wittgenstein | Accept an alternative view: Much more late because "meaning is use", but there's many valid insights in early W. too |
Zombies | Accept: inconceivable |