My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept wisdom
  • Neutral towards happiness
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Accept understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Agnostic/undecided
Arguments for theism Lean towards: cosmological
Belief or credence Skipped
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Agnostic/undecided
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis Skipped
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject unreal
  • Lean towards psychological
  • Lean towards social
  • Reject biological
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Skipped
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Skipped
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: identity
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Skipped
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Agnostic/undecided
Material composition Lean towards: nihilism
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Skipped
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Lean towards plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Skipped
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept an alternative view: Quantum Modal Realism
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against immanent universals
  • Lean towards nonexistent
  • Reject transcendent universals
  • Lean towards tropes
  • Lean against classes
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Lean towards: acts
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: many-worlds
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Skipped
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: epistemic externalist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards genes
  • Lean towards organisms
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept: inconceivable