My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Accept: no |
| Abortion | Accept: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Lean towards: nominalism |
| Aesthetic experience | Agnostic/undecided |
| Aesthetic value | Lean towards: objective |
| Aim of philosophy | Accept: truth/knowledge |
| Analysis of knowledge | Accept: justified true belief |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Accept: no |
| Arguments for theism | There is no fact of the matter |
| Belief or credence | Accept: belief |
| Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
| Causation | Accept: primitive |
| Chinese room | Accept: understands |
| Concepts | Accept: empiricism |
| Consciousness | Lean towards: eliminativism |
| Continuum hypothesis | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Lean towards: brute fact |
| Eating animals and animal products | Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes) |
| Environmental ethics | Lean towards: non-anthropocentric |
| Epistemic justification | Accept: externalism |
| Experience machine | Lean towards: yes |
| Extended mind | Accept: yes |
| External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Accept: push |
| Foundations of mathematics | Lean towards: set-theoretic |
| Free will | Accept: no free will |
| Gender | Accept: biological |
| Gender categories | There is no fact of the matter |
| God | Accept: atheism |
| Grounds of intentionality | Lean towards: primitive |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: no |
| Human genetic engineering | Accept: permissible |
| Hume | Lean towards: naturalist |
| Immortality | There is no fact of the matter |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Lean towards: supervenience |
| Justification | Accept: reliabilism |
| Kant | Lean towards: two worlds |
| Knowledge | Accept: empiricism |
| Knowledge claims | Lean towards: contextualism |
| Law | Accept: legal positivism |
| Laws of nature | Agnostic/undecided |
| Logic | Lean towards: classical |
| Material composition | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Meaning of life | Accept: nonexistent |
| Mental content | Accept: externalism |
| Meta-ethics | Lean towards: moral anti-realism |
| Metaontology | Lean towards: deflationary realism |
| Metaphilosophy | Accept: naturalism |
| Method in history of philosophy | Agnostic/undecided |
| Method in political philosophy | Accept: non-ideal theory |
| Mind | Accept: physicalism |
| Mind uploading | Agnostic/undecided |
| Moral judgment | Lean towards: non-cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Lean towards: externalism |
| Moral principles | Accept: moral generalism |
| Morality | Accept an alternative view: naturalist non-realism |
| Newcomb's problem | Agnostic/undecided |
| Normative concepts | Lean towards: reasons |
| Normative ethics | Accept: consequentialism |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Ought implies can | Accept: yes |
| Perceptual experience | Lean towards: disjunctivism |
| Personal identity | Lean towards: biological view |
| Philosophical knowledge | Accept: a lot |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Accept: a lot |
| Plato | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Political philosophy | Lean towards: libertarianism |
| Politics | Accept: capitalism |
| Possible worlds | Accept: nonexistent |
| Practical reason | Accept: Humean |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Accept: false |
| Proper names | Lean towards: Millian |
| Properties | Accept: classes |
| Propositional attitudes | Lean towards: representational |
| Propositions | Agnostic/undecided |
| Quantum mechanics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Race | Lean towards: biological |
| Race categories | Lean towards: preserve |
| Rational disagreement | Accept: non-permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Lean towards: pragmatic |
| Science | Accept: scientific realism |
| Semantic content | Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate) |
| Sleeping beauty | There is no fact of the matter |
| Spacetime | Agnostic/undecided |
| Statue and lump | There is no fact of the matter |
| Teletransporter | There is no fact of the matter |
| Temporal ontology | Agnostic/undecided |
| Theory of reference | Lean towards: descriptive |
| Time | Agnostic/undecided |
| Time travel | There is no fact of the matter |
| Trolley problem | Accept: switch |
| True contradictions | Agnostic/undecided |
| Truth | Accept: epistemic |
| Units of selection | Accept: genes |
| Vagueness | Agnostic/undecided |
| Values in science | Accept: necessarily value-free |
| Well-being | Accept: hedonism/experientialism |
| Wittgenstein | Lean towards: early |
| Zombies | Accept: inconceivable |