My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism There is no fact of the matter
Belief or credence Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Accept: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Agnostic/undecided
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Insufficiently familiar with the issue
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: libertarianism
Gender Skipped
Gender categories Lean towards: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: grounding
Justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Agnostic/undecided
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Method in political philosophy Accept: ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Agnostic/undecided
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral particularism
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Accept: reasons
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Reject empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Reject experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Accept an alternative view: Prioritarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Skipped
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Agnostic/undecided
Zombies Agnostic/undecided