Fox Baudelaire

University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Truth/knowledge is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Understanding is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Wisdom is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean towards Happiness is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean towards Goodness/justice is an important aim of philosophy
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Dualism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Lean towards Eliminativism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Lean towards Emergentism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Internalism about justification
  • Neutral towards Externalism about justification
Experience machine Accept an alternative view: It depends
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Foundations of mathematics There is no fact of the matter
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Gender is biological
  • Lean against Gender is psychological
  • Accept Gender is social
Gender categories Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Gender categories should be preserved
  • Lean towards Gender categories should be revised
  • Lean towards Gender categories should be eliminated
God Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Atheism
  • Lean towards Ignosticism
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Knowledge There is no fact of the matter
Meaning of life Accept an alternative view: Pluralism
Meta-ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Agnostic/undecided
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Virtue ethics
  • Lean towards pragmatism
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Communitarianism in political philosophy
  • Lean towards Socialism
Politics Accept: socialism
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: collapse
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Race categories should be preserved
  • Lean towards Race categories should be revised
  • Lean towards Race categories should be eliminated
Science Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Scientific realism
  • Neutral towards Scientific anti-realism
  • Lean towards instrumentalism
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Agnostic/undecided
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Genes are the unit of natural selection
  • Accept Organisms are the unit of natural selection
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Zombies The question is too unclear to answer