My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Aesthetic experience: perception
  • Reject Aesthetic experience: sui generis
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards Aim of philosophy: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Arguments for theism: cosmological
  • Reject Arguments for theism: design
  • Reject Arguments for theism: ontological
  • Reject Arguments for theism: pragmatic
  • Reject Arguments for theism: moral
Belief or credence Agnostic/undecided
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: nonexistent
Chinese room Accept: understands
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Consciousness: dualism
  • Lean towards Consciousness: eliminativism
  • Reject Consciousness: panpsychism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Accept: yes
Extended mind Agnostic/undecided
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Accept: no
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Lean towards: nihilism
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Agnostic/undecided
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: error theory
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Other minds: adult humans
  • Accept Other minds: cats
  • Lean towards Other minds: fish
  • Lean against Other minds: flies
  • Lean against Other minds: worms
  • Reject Other minds: plants
  • Reject Other minds: particles
  • Lean towards Other minds: newborn babies
  • Lean against Other minds: current AI systems
  • Lean towards Other minds: future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Agnostic/undecided
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
  • Accept Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
  • Reject Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Agnostic/undecided
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Agnostic/undecided
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: pragmatic
Science Other
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter Agnostic/undecided
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Accept: genes
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Vagueness: epistemic
  • Lean against Vagueness: metaphysical
  • Lean towards Vagueness: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-free
Well-being Lean towards: desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Agnostic/undecided