My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: pragmatism
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: ontological
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Accept: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept externalism
  • Accept internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
God Accept: atheism
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Immortality Accept: no
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Lean towards: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Race Accept: social
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Teletransporter Accept: death
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Trolley problem Accept: don't switch
Truth Accept: correspondence
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible