My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Lean towards: no |
| Abortion | Accept: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Accept: nominalism |
| Aesthetic experience | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Aesthetic value | Accept: subjective |
| Aim of philosophy | There is no fact of the matter |
| Analysis of knowledge | Accept: justified true belief |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Lean towards: yes |
| Arguments for theism | Lean towards: cosmological |
| Belief or credence | Lean towards: neither |
| Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
| Causation | Lean towards: primitive |
| Chinese room | Accept: doesn't understand |
| Concepts | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Consciousness | Lean towards: dualism |
| Continuum hypothesis | There is no fact of the matter |
| Cosmological fine-tuning |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Eating animals and animal products | Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes) |
| Environmental ethics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Epistemic justification | Accept: internalism |
| Experience machine | Accept: no |
| Extended mind | Lean towards: yes |
| External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Agnostic/undecided |
| Foundations of mathematics | Accept: formalism |
| Free will | Lean towards: libertarianism |
| Gender |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Gender categories | Lean towards: revise |
| God | Lean towards: atheism |
| Grounds of intentionality | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: yes |
| Human genetic engineering | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Hume | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Immortality | Lean towards: yes |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Accept: grounding |
| Justification |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Kant | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Knowledge | Lean towards: empiricism |
| Knowledge claims | Lean towards: contextualism |
| Law | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Laws of nature | Accept: non-Humean |
| Logic | Accept an alternative view: Logical Pluralism |
| Material composition | Accept: universalism |
| Meaning of life | Accept: nonexistent |
| Mental content | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Meta-ethics | Lean towards: moral realism |
| Metaontology | Lean towards: deflationary realism |
| Metaphilosophy | Lean towards: naturalism |
| Method in history of philosophy | Accept: contextual/historicist |
| Method in political philosophy | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Mind | Lean towards: non-physicalism |
| Mind uploading | Agnostic/undecided |
| Moral judgment | Lean towards: cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Moral principles | Lean towards: moral generalism |
| Morality | Lean towards: non-naturalism |
| Newcomb's problem | Accept: two boxes |
| Normative concepts |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Normative ethics |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Other minds | Agnostic/undecided |
| Ought implies can | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Perceptual experience | Lean towards: representationalism |
| Personal identity | Lean towards: further-fact view |
| Philosophical knowledge | Accept: a little |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Accept: a little |
| Plato | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Political philosophy | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Politics | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Possible worlds | Accept an alternative view: There are modal facts. Possible world semantics gives the right semantics for those claims. |
| Practical reason | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Accept: false |
| Proper names | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Properties | Accept an alternative view: structuralism |
| Propositional attitudes | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Propositions | Lean towards: structured entities |
| Quantum mechanics |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Race | Accept: unreal |
| Race categories | Accept: eliminate |
| Rational disagreement | Accept: permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Accept: abductive |
| Science | Accept: scientific realism |
| Semantic content | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Sleeping beauty | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Spacetime | Accept: substantivalism |
| Statue and lump |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Teletransporter | Agnostic/undecided |
| Temporal ontology |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Theory of reference | Lean towards: deflationary |
| Time | Lean towards: A-theory |
| Time travel | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Trolley problem | Accept: switch |
| True contradictions | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Truth | Accept: deflationary |
| Units of selection | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Vagueness |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Values in science | Accept: can be either |
| Well-being | Lean towards: objective list |
| Wittgenstein | Accept an alternative view: Neither, just read Carnap |
| Zombies | Agnostic/undecided |