My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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A priori knowledge | Accept: yes |
Abortion | Accept: permissible |
Abstract objects | Accept an alternative view: Pleonastic entities which exist atemporally and aspatially rather than outside of space and time |
Aesthetic experience | Lean towards: sui generis |
Aesthetic value | Accept an alternative view: Fundamental aesthetic judgements express sensory preferences rooted in human nature |
Aim of philosophy | Accept an alternative view: Theoretical philosophy aims at conceptual self-understanding (Strawson) and serves critical thinking |
Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: other analysis |
Analytic-synthetic distinction | Accept: yes |
Arguments for theism | Accept an alternative view: cosmological argument proves first cause but not personal God |
Belief or credence | Lean towards: credence |
Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
Causation | Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making |
Chinese room | Lean towards: understands |
Concepts | Accept an alternative view: Kantianism à la Strawson |
Consciousness | Accept an alternative view: Both wakefulness and transitive consciousness are mental capacities, latter presupposing former |
Cosmological fine-tuning | Lean towards: brute fact |
Eating animals and animal products | Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes) |
Environmental ethics | Lean towards: non-anthropocentric |
Epistemic justification | Lean towards: externalism |
Experience machine | Accept: no |
Extended mind | Lean towards: yes |
External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
Footbridge | Lean towards: don't push |
Foundations of mathematics | Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism |
Free will |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Gender |
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Gender categories | Lean towards: revise |
God | Accept: atheism |
Grounds of intentionality | Lean towards: interpretational |
Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: no |
Human genetic engineering | Lean towards: impermissible |
Hume | Accept an alternative view: Scepticism mitigated by naturalism |
Immortality | Lean towards: yes |
Interlevel metaphysics | Lean towards: realization |
Justification | Accept an alternative view: Inferential justification terminates in hinge-propositions à la Moore and Wittgenstein, another form of justification invokes epistemic capacities |
Kant | Lean towards: two worlds |
Knowledge | Accept an alternative view: Kantianism à la Strawson |
Knowledge claims | Lean towards: invariantism |
Law | Lean towards: legal positivism |
Laws of nature | Accept: non-Humean |
Logic | Lean towards: non-classical |
Material composition | Lean towards: restrictivism |
Meaning of life | Lean towards: objective |
Mental content | Accept an alternative view: Logical constructions from capacities of subject |
Meta-ethics |
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Metaontology | Lean towards: deflationary realism |
Metaphilosophy | Accept an alternative view: accept ontological and reject epistemic and meta-philosophical naturalism |
Method in history of philosophy | Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction |
Method in political philosophy | Lean towards: non-ideal theory |
Mind | Accept an alternative view: A mind is not a thing but a set of abilities and dispositions (Aristotle and Wittgenstein) |
Mind uploading | Accept: death |
Moral judgment | Accept an alternative view: Fundamental moral statements are conceptual; some concepts they articulate are rooted in human nature, others in social conditions |
Moral motivation | Lean towards: externalism |
Moral principles | Accept: moral generalism |
Morality | Lean towards: non-naturalism |
Newcomb's problem | The question is too unclear to answer |
Normative concepts | Accept an alternative view: Different levels of normativity: standards < values < oughts |
Normative ethics |
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Other minds |
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Ought implies can | Lean towards: yes |
Perceptual experience | Accept an alternative view: actualization of capabilities |
Personal identity | Accept an alternative view: multiple criteria which can come apart |
Philosophical knowledge | Accept an alternative view: Philosophical knowledge is possible, but conceptual rather than factual |
Philosophical methods |
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Philosophical progress | Lean towards: a little |
Plato | Lean towards: knowledge only of forms |
Political philosophy |
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Politics |
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Possible worlds | Accept an alternative view: 'possible worlds' is a terminology for illustrating - not explaining - modality |
Practical reason | Lean towards: Kantian |
Principle of sufficient reason | Lean towards: false |
Proper names | Accept an alternative view: proper names lack meaning but competent use requires some knowledge about referent |
Properties | Lean towards: immanent universals |
Propositional attitudes | Lean towards: dispositional |
Propositions | Accept an alternative view: propositions are logical constructions from that clauses and ultimately from epistemic capacities |
Quantum mechanics | Lean towards: epistemic |
Race | Lean towards: unreal |
Race categories | Lean towards: eliminate |
Rational disagreement | Lean towards: non-permissivism |
Response to external-world skepticism | Accept an alternative view: Moore's strategy of differential certainty: premises of sceptical arguments are more contentious than the knowledge claims they impugn |
Science | Lean towards: scientific realism |
Semantic content | Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate) |
Sleeping beauty | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Spacetime | Accept an alternative view: Not a thing, but the relations constituting it are part of an objective natural order |
Statue and lump | Accept an alternative view: One thing differently conceptualized |
Teletransporter | Accept: death |
Temporal ontology | Lean towards: presentism |
Theory of reference | Lean towards: deflationary |
Time | Lean towards: A-theory |
Time travel | Lean towards: metaphysically impossible |
Trolley problem |
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True contradictions | Accept: impossible |
Truth | Accept: deflationary |
Vagueness | Lean towards: semantic |
Values in science | The question is too unclear to answer |
Well-being | Accept an alternative view: Capability view (Nussbaum) |
Wittgenstein | Lean towards: late |
Zombies | Accept: inconceivable |