University of Edinburgh
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2009
Glasgow, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
PhilPapers Editorships
Epistemic Luck

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: wisdom
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Agnostic/undecided
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: psychological
God Lean towards: atheism
Kant The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Laws of nature Agnostic/undecided
Logic Accept: classical
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Perceptual experience Agnostic/undecided
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Agnostic/undecided
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Agnostic/undecided
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Teletransporter The question is too unclear to answer
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Vagueness Accept: epistemic
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible