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Eros Carvalho

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept happiness
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards goodness/justice
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge There is no fact of the matter
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
God Accept: atheism
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Meaning of life Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept subjective
  • Accept objective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Mind Accept an alternative view: Ryle's adverbialism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept deontology
  • Accept consequentialism
  • Accept virtue ethics
Perceptual experience Accept: disjunctivism
Personal identity Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept psychological view
  • Accept further-fact view
  • Accept biological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Proper names There is no fact of the matter
Race Accept: social
Science Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter Accept an alternative view: Biological death, psychological survival
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem There is no fact of the matter
Truth Accept: correspondence
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Zombies Lean towards: inconceivable