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Duy Khang Nguyen

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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards Aim of philosophy: understanding
  • Lean towards Aim of philosophy: wisdom
  • Neutral towards Aim of philosophy: happiness
  • Lean towards Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Other
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against primitive
  • Neutral towards counterfactual/difference-making
  • Lean towards process/production
  • Reject nonexistent
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Agnostic/undecided
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Other
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Agnostic/undecided
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept: set-theoretic
Free will The question is too unclear to answer
Gender Accept an alternative view: Biologically originated social identity
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Justification: infinitism
  • Reject Justification: reliabilism
  • Reject Justification: coherentism
  • Reject Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Accept an alternative view: Empirical Historicism
Knowledge claims Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Knowledge claims: contextualism
  • Lean against Knowledge claims: relativism
  • Neutral towards Knowledge claims: invariantism
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Agnostic/undecided
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept an alternative view: Epistemically subjective but ontologically objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Agnostic/undecided
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Method in political philosophy: ideal theory
  • Lean towards Method in political philosophy: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Other
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Other
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Accept historical method
Philosophical progress Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards a little
  • Lean towards a lot
  • Lean against none
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Other
Politics Other
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Other
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Race: social
  • Lean towards Race: biological
  • Neutral towards Race: unreal
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Time travel Accept an alternative view: metaphysically possible as we are travelling right now into the future but we cannot travel to the past
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: possible but non-actual
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Other
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible