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G. Owen Schaefer

National University of Singapore
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University of Oxford
Faculty of Philosophy
DPhil, 2014
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Singapore, Singapore
0000-0002-6915-6148
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics
Biomedical Ethics
Ethics and Science
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics
Normative Ethics
Social and Political Philosophy
Value Theory
Biomedical Ethics
Value Theory, Miscellaneous
Ethics and Science
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic value Agnostic/undecided
Aim of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Arguments for theism Accept an alternative view: No rational argument, requires faith
Belief or credence The question is too unclear to answer
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room Agnostic/undecided
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Lean towards: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: design
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against push
  • Lean against don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept no free will
  • Accept compatibilism
  • Lean against libertarianism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject unreal
  • Lean towards psychological
  • Lean towards social
  • Lean towards biological
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Agnostic/undecided
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification The question is too unclear to answer
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: Pluralism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Accept an alternative view: Identical with body, but only contingently so
Philosophical knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Agnostic/undecided
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: epistemic
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Skipped
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: epistemic
Units of selection The question is too unclear to answer
Vagueness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: early
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible