My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic value There is no fact of the matter
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
God Accept: atheism
Immortality Lean towards: no
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics There is no fact of the matter
Perceptual experience Other
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
  • Lean against Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
  • Accept Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Race Lean towards: social
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
Truth Accept: deflationary
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being There is no fact of the matter
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible