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Gualtiero Piccinini

University of Missouri, Columbia
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: Aristotelian realism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aim of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject moral
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject design
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject ontological
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept counterfactual/difference-making
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Reject primitive
  • Accept process/production
Chinese room The question is too unclear to answer
Concepts The question is too unclear to answer
Consciousness Accept an alternative view: Consciousness consists of aspects of physical qualities
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind The question is too unclear to answer
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept an alternative view: Aristotelian realism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards biological
  • Accept psychological
  • Accept social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject primitive
  • Accept inferential
  • Reject interpretational
  • Accept causal/teleological
  • Accept phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality The question is too unclear to answer
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: realization
Justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject nihilism
  • Accept restrictivism
  • Accept universalism
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content The question is too unclear to answer
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept contextual/historicist
  • Accept analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Morality Lean towards: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Agnostic/undecided
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: qualia theory
Personal identity Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept socialism
  • Accept capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Accept: Fregean
Properties Lean towards: tropes
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Accept: collapse
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept social
  • Accept biological
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: contextualist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump The question is too unclear to answer
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Accept: growing block
Theory of reference Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept descriptive
  • Accept causal
Time Accept: A-theory
Time travel Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards organisms
  • Lean towards genes
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Wittgenstein Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards early
  • Neutral towards late
Zombies The question is too unclear to answer