My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards yes
  • Accept The question is too unclear to answer
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Platonism
Aesthetic value Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards subjective
  • Lean towards intersubjective
Aim of philosophy Accept an alternative view: justification
Analysis of knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept other analysis
  • Reject no analysis
  • Lean against justified true belief
  • Accept sufficient justification
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards yes
  • Accept the question is unclear
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject ontological
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject moral
  • Reject design
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards understands
  • Accept the Chinese room cannot exist even in principle
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards brute fact
  • Accept agnostic
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards externalism
  • Lean against internalism
  • Accept dialectical
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind There is no fact of the matter
External world Accept an alternative view: the only obtainable knowledge is vat-knowledge
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards psychological
  • Lean towards social
God Lean towards: atheism
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Hume Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards skeptic
  • Lean towards naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject nonreliabilist foundationalism
  • Reject coherentism
  • Reject reliabilism
  • Reject infinitism
  • Accept conditional dialectical justification (what is accepted in the context of discussion)
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards empiricism
  • Lean towards rationalism
Laws of nature Accept an alternative view: the Humean and the non-Humean view are both unjustified
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept non-classical
  • Accept classical
Meaning of life Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards subjective
  • Reject objective
  • Neutral towards nonexistent
Meta-ethics The question is too unclear to answer
Metaontology Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject non-naturalism
  • Lean towards naturalism
  • Accept epistemic evaluability (only naturalistic claims seem to be evaluable and justified, but not all of them are)
Method in political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards ideal theory
  • Accept non-ideal theory
Mind Accept an alternative view: physicalism and non-physicalism are both unjustified
Mind uploading The question is too unclear to answer
Moral principles The question is too unclear to answer
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards virtue ethics
  • Lean towards deontology
  • Lean towards consequentialism
  • Accept I have a deontological way of thinking, but all three theories have their merits
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Accept worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against formal philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Accept all unarbitrary argumentation
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards knowledge also of concrete things
  • Lean towards knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards socialism
  • Lean towards capitalism
  • Accept welfare state
Possible worlds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject concrete
Principle of sufficient reason Accept an alternative view: the principle and its rejection are both unjustified
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject tropes
  • Reject transcendent universals
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject semantic externalist
Science Accept an alternative view: Petri Turunen's Constrained Ontology
Teletransporter The question is too unclear to answer
Theory of reference Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards descriptive
  • Reject causal
Truth Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible