My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept: biological
God Lean towards: atheism
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Agnostic/undecided
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: none
Political philosophy Accept: communitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Proper names Accept: Fregean
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Race Accept: biological
Science Accept: scientific anti-realism
Teletransporter Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Well-being Lean towards: desire satisfaction
Zombies Lean towards: inconceivable