My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept understanding
  • Neutral towards goodness/justice
  • Neutral towards truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards wisdom
  • Accept happiness
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Causation Accept an alternative view: Grounded in laws and probabilistic independencies
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: panpsychism
Continuum hypothesis There is no fact of the matter
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Lean towards: idealism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept an alternative view: Naturalism
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics There is no fact of the matter
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic There is no fact of the matter
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaontology Lean towards: anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Newcomb's problem There is no fact of the matter
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Agnostic/undecided
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: none
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
Philosophical progress The question is too unclear to answer
Political philosophy Lean towards: libertarianism
Politics Agnostic/undecided
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Lean towards: classes
Propositions Lean towards: sets
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: epistemic
Race Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Accept: non-permissivism
Science Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards scientific anti-realism
  • Neutral towards scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Temporal ontology Lean towards: growing block
Time Agnostic/undecided
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Wittgenstein Accept: early
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible