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Dustin Crummett

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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Agnostic/undecided
Aim of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: design
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Accept an alternative view: permissible in principle, impermissible in practice
Causation Accept: process/production
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept: nativism
Consciousness Accept: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Agnostic/undecided
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: design
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Agnostic/undecided
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Agnostic/undecided
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Agnostic/undecided
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Agnostic/undecided
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Accept: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Agnostic/undecided
Laws of nature Agnostic/undecided
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Accept: nihilism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Method in political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept ideal theory
  • Accept non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Agnostic/undecided
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject expressivism
  • Reject error theory
  • Neutral towards non-naturalism
  • Neutral towards naturalist realism
  • Reject constructivism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Accept: reasons
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Neutral towards current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: qualia theory
Personal identity Accept: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason The question is too unclear to answer
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Agnostic/undecided
Rational disagreement The question is too unclear to answer
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Accept an alternative view: Mereological nihilism (zero things)
Teletransporter Agnostic/undecided
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Agnostic/undecided
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: early
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible