My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: understanding
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: wisdom
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: happiness
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Method in history of philosophy: analytic/rational reconstruction
  • Accept Method in history of philosophy: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Moral judgment: cognitivism
  • Lean towards Moral judgment: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Morality Lean towards: constructivism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative ethics Agnostic/undecided
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Other minds: adult humans
  • Accept Other minds: cats
  • Accept Other minds: fish
  • Neutral towards Other minds: flies
  • Lean against Other minds: worms
  • Reject Other minds: plants
  • Reject Other minds: particles
  • Accept Other minds: newborn babies
  • Lean against Other minds: current AI systems
  • Neutral towards Other minds: future AI systems
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
  • Accept Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
  • Accept Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
  • Accept Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
  • Accept Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
  • Accept Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept Philosophical methods: linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Trolley problem Agnostic/undecided
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Wittgenstein Accept: late