My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Lean towards: impermissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Aesthetic experience: perception
  • Lean towards Aesthetic experience: pleasure
  • Lean towards Aesthetic experience: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: understanding
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: wisdom
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: happiness
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Arguments for theism: cosmological
  • Lean towards Arguments for theism: design
  • Lean towards Arguments for theism: ontological
  • Neutral towards Arguments for theism: pragmatic
  • Neutral towards Arguments for theism: moral
Belief or credence The question is too unclear to answer
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Agnostic/undecided
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Concepts: nativism
  • Lean towards Concepts: empiricism
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Free will: compatibilism
  • Lean towards Free will: libertarianism
  • Reject Free will: no free will
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Gender: biological
  • Lean towards Gender: psychological
  • Lean towards Gender: social
  • Reject Gender: unreal
God Accept: theism
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Meaning of life Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Meaning of life: subjective
  • Lean towards Meaning of life: objective
  • Reject Meaning of life: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Other
Political philosophy Lean towards: libertarianism
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Race: biological
  • Lean towards Race: social
  • Reject Race: unreal
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Time Accept: A-theory
Trolley problem There is no fact of the matter
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Vagueness: epistemic
  • Lean against Vagueness: metaphysical
  • Lean towards Vagueness: semantic
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible