My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
Main Questions
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abstract objects Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic value Agnostic/undecided
Aim of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards nativism
  • Lean towards empiricism
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards no fine-tuning
  • Reject brute fact
  • Reject design
  • Lean towards multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: set-theoretic
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
God Accept: atheism
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic The question is too unclear to answer
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Accept an alternative view: Pluralism
Meta-ethics The question is too unclear to answer
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Proper names Accept: Fregean
Propositions Accept: sets
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible
Survey Prompt Response
Additional Questions
Abortion Accept: permissible
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject dualism
  • Reject panpsychism
  • Lean towards functionalism
  • Lean towards identity theory
  • Reject eliminativism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Extended mind Lean towards: no
Gender categories Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality The question is too unclear to answer
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Metaontology Accept: deflationary realism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind uploading Accept: survival
Moral principles Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Morality Lean towards: error theory
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Properties Lean towards: classes
Propositional attitudes The question is too unclear to answer
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Agnostic/undecided
Theory of reference Accept: descriptive
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Values in science Agnostic/undecided
Well-being Lean towards: desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Agnostic/undecided