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Gregory Salmieri

University of Texas at Austin
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University of Pittsburgh
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2008
APA Eastern Division
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Austin, Texas, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics
Epistemology
Normative Ethics
Aristotle
Ayn Rand
Political Theory
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Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Meta-Ethics
Normative Ethics
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abstract objects Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Platonism about abstract objects
  • Reject Nominalism about abstract objects
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
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
  • Accept Happiness is an important aim of philosophy
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge The question is too unclear to answer
Free will Accept: libertarianism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Gender is biological
  • Accept Gender is psychological
  • Accept Gender is social
  • Reject Gender is unreal
God Accept: atheism
Knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Empiricism
  • Reject Rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Skipped
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Skipped
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Deontology
  • Reject Consequentialism
  • Reject Virtue ethics
Perceptual experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Disjunctivism
  • Reject Qualia theory
  • Reject Representationalism about perceptual experience
  • Reject Sense-datum theory
Personal identity Skipped
Philosophical methods Skipped
Philosophical progress Skipped
Proper names Skipped
Race Lean towards: social
Science Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Time Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against A-theory of time
  • Lean against B-theory of time
Trolley problem The question is too unclear to answer
Truth Skipped
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Zombies Skipped