My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept an alternative view: Subjective, but with a non-individualistic understanding of subjectivity and subjective judgments.
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Truth/knowledge is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Understanding is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Wisdom is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Happiness is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Goodness/justice is an important aim of philosophy
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: moral
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Agnostic/undecided
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: design
Eating animals and animal products Agnostic/undecided
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories The question is too unclear to answer
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Agnostic/undecided
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards I prefer the ideal theory method in political philosophy
  • Lean towards I prefer the non-ideal theory method in political philosophy
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Deontology
  • Lean towards Virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Adult humans are conscious
  • Accept Cats are conscious
  • Lean towards Fish are conscious
  • Lean against Flies are conscious
  • Lean against Worms are conscious
  • Lean against Plants are conscious
  • Reject Particles are conscious
  • Lean towards Newborn babies are conscious
  • Reject Current AI systems are conscious
  • Lean against Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against 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
  • Accept Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Lean towards: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Properties Lean towards: tropes
Propositional attitudes Agnostic/undecided
Propositions Agnostic/undecided
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: unreal
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: epistemic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Agnostic/undecided
Theory of reference Agnostic/undecided
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Time travel Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Agnostic/undecided
Values in science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible