My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: impermissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards happiness
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards goodness/justice
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: cosmological
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: permissible
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Consciousness Accept: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: design
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept an alternative view: Proper functionalism.
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept an alternative view: No-win situation.
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: set-theoretic
Free will Accept: libertarianism
Gender Accept: biological
God Accept: theism
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Accept worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject 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 conceptual analysis
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Political philosophy Accept: libertarianism
Politics Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: true
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Quantum mechanics Accept: hidden-variables
Race Lean towards: biological
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: epistemic externalist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Accept: presentism
Time Accept: A-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept an alternative view: No-win situation.
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: objective list
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible