Frodo Podschwadek

Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Agnostic/undecided
Gender Lean towards: social
God Accept: atheism
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Agnostic/undecided
Logic Lean towards: classical
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Moral motivation: internalism
  • Lean towards Moral motivation: externalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics The question is too unclear to answer
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
  • Reject Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Race Accept: social
Science Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter Accept: death
Time Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Vagueness Agnostic/undecided
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible