My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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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 |