My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Accept an alternative view: Depends on what you can get from a prior knowledge -- see Jeff Horty |
| Abstract objects | Lean towards: nominalism |
| Aesthetic value | Lean towards: objective |
| Aim of philosophy | Lean towards: understanding |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Accept: yes |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Eating animals and animal products | Accept an alternative view: Ovatarianism -- assuming we collect "wild chicken eggs" |
| Epistemic justification | Agnostic/undecided |
| Experience machine | Accept: no |
| External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Accept: push |
| Free will | Lean towards: libertarianism |
| Gender | Accept an alternative view: I know men change personalities when you remove testosterone. I do not want to hang my values on scientific studies. |
| God | Lean towards: theism |
| Human genetic engineering | Agnostic/undecided |
| Hume | Agnostic/undecided |
| Knowledge | Accept an alternative view: Both |
| Knowledge claims | Lean towards: invariantism |
| Laws of nature | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Logic | Lean towards: non-classical |
| Material composition | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Meaning of life | Agnostic/undecided |
| Mental content | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Meta-ethics | Accept: moral realism |
| Metaphilosophy | Lean towards: naturalism |
| Method in political philosophy | Lean towards: non-ideal theory |
| Mind | Agnostic/undecided |
| Moral judgment | Accept: cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Accept: internalism |
| Newcomb's problem | Accept: one box |
| Normative ethics | Lean towards: deontology |
| Perceptual experience | Accept: qualia theory |
| Personal identity | Accept an alternative view: I have developed an alt view "the Life Trajectory Theory" |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Lean towards: a lot |
| Political philosophy | Agnostic/undecided |
| Proper names | Accept an alternative view: Doubly context sensitive view |
| Propositions | Lean towards: nonexistent |
| Race | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Science | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Sleeping beauty | Accept: one-half |
| Statue and lump | Accept an alternative view: Statue is a phase sortal |
| Teletransporter | Accept: survival |
| Time | Lean towards: A-theory |
| Trolley problem | Accept: switch |
| Truth | Accept: correspondence |
| Units of selection | Accept: organisms |
| Vagueness | Lean towards: metaphysical |
| Wittgenstein | Lean towards: late |
| Zombies | Agnostic/undecided |