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Herman Fett

University College London
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London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics
Normative Ethics
Moral Error Theories and Fictionalism
Moral Contractualism
Socialism and Marxism
Areas of Interest
Political Theory
Moral Judgment
Moral Language
Obligation
Pragmatics

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Truth/knowledge is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean towards Understanding is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean against Wisdom is an important aim of philosophy
  • Reject Happiness is an important aim of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Goodness/justice is an important aim of philosophy
Analytic-synthetic distinction Agnostic/undecided
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Lean towards: skepticism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Lean towards: no free will
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Gender is biological
  • Lean against Gender is psychological
  • Accept Gender is social
  • Accept Gender is unreal
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Lean towards: no
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Agnostic/undecided
Meaning of life Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards The meaning of life is subjective
  • Reject The meaning of life is objective
  • Neutral towards Life has no meaning
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Non-naturalism about morality
  • Reject Naturalist realism about morality
  • Lean towards Constructivism about morality
  • Lean against Expressivism about morality
  • Lean towards Error theory of morality
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Fit is the most fundamental normative concept
  • Lean against Ought is the most fundamental normative concept
  • Lean towards Reason is the most fundamental normative concept
  • Lean towards Value is the most fundamental normative concept
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Adult humans are conscious
  • Lean towards Cats are conscious
  • Lean towards Fish are conscious
  • Neutral towards Flies are conscious
  • Neutral towards Worms are conscious
  • Reject Plants are conscious
  • Reject Particles are conscious
  • Accept Newborn babies are conscious
  • Reject Current AI systems are conscious
  • Reject Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Reject Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Other
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Propositions Lean towards: acts
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Race is biological
  • Accept Race is social
  • Lean towards Race is unreal
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Science Accept: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Accept: radical contextualism (most or all)
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Temporal ontology Lean towards: growing block
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: possible but non-actual
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible