My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Abortion | Accept: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Lean towards: nominalism |
| Aesthetic experience | Lean towards: perception |
| Aesthetic value | Lean towards: objective |
| Aim of philosophy | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: no analysis |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Lean towards: no |
| Arguments for theism | Accept an alternative view: Cumulative case is strongest (but still not very strong) |
| Belief or credence | Lean towards: neither |
| Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
| Causation | Lean towards: primitive |
| Chinese room | Accept an alternative view: Not possible (combinatorial explosion) |
| Concepts | Lean towards: empiricism |
| Consciousness | Accept: identity theory |
| Continuum hypothesis | Agnostic/undecided |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Accept an alternative view: Fine-tuning is metaphysically necessary. |
| Eating animals and animal products | Lean towards: veganism (no and no) |
| Environmental ethics | Accept: non-anthropocentric |
| Epistemic justification | Lean towards: internalism |
| Experience machine | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Extended mind | Lean towards: yes |
| External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Lean towards: don't push |
| Foundations of mathematics | Lean towards: set-theoretic |
| Free will | Accept: compatibilism |
| Gender | Lean towards: social |
| Gender categories | Accept: revise |
| God | Accept: atheism |
| Grounds of intentionality | Agnostic/undecided |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: no |
| Human genetic engineering | Lean towards: permissible |
| Hume | Agnostic/undecided |
| Immortality | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Accept an alternative view: Thing/Stuff |
| Justification | Lean towards: coherentism |
| Kant | Agnostic/undecided |
| Knowledge | Lean towards: empiricism |
| Knowledge claims | Lean towards: contextualism |
| Law | Lean towards: legal positivism |
| Laws of nature | Accept: non-Humean |
| Logic | Agnostic/undecided |
| Material composition | Lean towards: restrictivism |
| Meaning of life | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Mental content | Accept: externalism |
| Meta-ethics | Lean towards: moral realism |
| Metaontology | Lean towards: heavyweight realism |
| Metaphilosophy | Accept: naturalism |
| Method in history of philosophy | Lean towards: contextual/historicist |
| Method in political philosophy | Lean towards: non-ideal theory |
| Mind | Accept an alternative view: Naturalism |
| Mind uploading | Accept an alternative view: Impossible to replace brain with digital emulation |
| Moral judgment | Lean towards: cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Agnostic/undecided |
| Moral principles | Lean towards: moral generalism |
| Morality | Accept: naturalist realism |
| Newcomb's problem | Lean towards: two boxes |
| Normative concepts | Lean towards: reasons |
| Normative ethics | Lean towards: virtue ethics |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Ought implies can | Lean towards: yes |
| Perceptual experience | Lean towards: disjunctivism |
| Personal identity | Lean towards: biological view |
| Philosophical knowledge | Lean towards: none |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Philosophical progress | Lean towards: a little |
| Plato | Agnostic/undecided |
| Political philosophy | Agnostic/undecided |
| Politics | Accept: socialism |
| Possible worlds | Lean towards: nonexistent |
| Practical reason | Agnostic/undecided |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Lean towards: true |
| Proper names | Lean towards: Fregean |
| Properties | Lean towards: nonexistent |
| Propositional attitudes | Lean towards: representational |
| Propositions | Lean towards: nonexistent |
| Quantum mechanics | Agnostic/undecided |
| Race | Lean towards: social |
| Race categories | Agnostic/undecided |
| Rational disagreement | Accept: permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Lean towards: abductive |
| Science | Accept: scientific realism |
| Semantic content | Agnostic/undecided |
| Sleeping beauty | Lean towards: one-half |
| Spacetime | Lean towards: substantivalism |
| Statue and lump | Accept an alternative view: one thing constituted from one [kind of] stuff |
| Teletransporter | Accept an alternative view: Teletransportation not possible. |
| Temporal ontology | Lean towards: eternalism |
| Theory of reference | Lean towards: causal |
| Time | Lean towards: B-theory |
| Time travel | Lean towards: metaphysically impossible |
| Trolley problem | Accept: switch |
| True contradictions | Lean towards: impossible |
| Truth | Lean towards: deflationary |
| Units of selection | Agnostic/undecided |
| Vagueness | Lean towards: semantic |
| Values in science | Lean towards: necessarily value-free |
| Well-being | Agnostic/undecided |
| Wittgenstein | Lean towards: late |
| Zombies | Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible |