My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analytic-synthetic distinction The question is too unclear to answer
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Cosmological fine-tuning Skipped
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Immortality Accept: no
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature There is no fact of the matter
Logic Lean towards: classical
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading The question is too unclear to answer
Moral judgment There is no fact of the matter
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Reject formal philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Proper names Accept: Millian
Race Accept: social
Science Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Accept: correspondence
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Zombies Accept an alternative view: not justified in believing that they are conceivable