My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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A priori knowledge | Lean towards: yes |
Abortion | Accept: permissible |
Abstract objects | Accept an alternative view: there are other options |
Aesthetic experience | Skipped |
Aesthetic value | Lean towards: objective |
Aim of philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Analysis of knowledge | Skipped |
Analytic-synthetic distinction | Lean towards: yes |
Arguments for theism | Lean towards: pragmatic |
Belief or credence | Lean towards: belief |
Capital punishment | Lean towards: impermissible |
Causation | Agnostic/undecided |
Chinese room | Lean towards: understands |
Concepts | Accept an alternative view: neither - conextualism |
Consciousness | Lean towards: functionalism |
Continuum hypothesis | Agnostic/undecided |
Cosmological fine-tuning | Agnostic/undecided |
Eating animals and animal products | Accept: veganism (no and no) |
Environmental ethics | Lean towards: non-anthropocentric |
Epistemic justification |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Experience machine | Accept: no |
Extended mind | Lean towards: yes |
External world | Accept an alternative view: realism |
Footbridge | Lean towards: don't push |
Foundations of mathematics | Lean towards: set-theoretic |
Free will | Agnostic/undecided |
Gender |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Gender categories | Lean towards: eliminate |
God | Accept an alternative view: depends on what we mean by "god" |
Grounds of intentionality | Lean towards: causal/teleological |
Hard problem of consciousness | Lean towards: yes |
Human genetic engineering | Lean towards: permissible |
Hume | Lean towards: naturalist |
Immortality | Lean towards: no |
Interlevel metaphysics | Lean towards: grounding |
Justification | Lean towards: coherentism |
Kant | Lean towards: one world |
Knowledge | Accept an alternative view: both |
Knowledge claims | Lean towards: contextualism |
Law | Lean towards: legal non-positivism |
Laws of nature | Lean towards: Humean |
Logic |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Material composition | Agnostic/undecided |
Meaning of life |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Mental content |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Meta-ethics | Lean towards: moral realism |
Metaontology | Lean towards: heavyweight realism |
Metaphilosophy | Lean towards: naturalism |
Method in history of philosophy | Accept an alternative view: both |
Method in political philosophy | Lean towards: non-ideal theory |
Mind | Accept an alternative view: again, these are reductive and too simplistic, there are other options |
Mind uploading | Lean towards: death |
Moral judgment |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Moral motivation |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Moral principles | Lean towards: moral generalism |
Morality | Lean towards: constructivism |
Newcomb's problem | Agnostic/undecided |
Normative concepts | Accept an alternative view: all of the above |
Normative ethics | Lean towards: virtue ethics |
Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Ought implies can | Agnostic/undecided |
Perceptual experience | Agnostic/undecided |
Personal identity | Accept an alternative view: narrative |
Philosophical knowledge | Accept: a lot |
Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Philosophical progress | Lean towards: a lot |
Plato | Lean towards: knowledge only of forms |
Political philosophy | Lean towards: communitarianism |
Politics | Accept an alternative view: are these not names for economic (and not) political systems/views (even if each has political grounds and implications |
Possible worlds | Lean towards: abstract |
Practical reason | Lean towards: Aristotelian |
Principle of sufficient reason | Agnostic/undecided |
Proper names | Agnostic/undecided |
Properties | Skipped |
Propositional attitudes | Lean towards: phenomenal |
Propositions | Agnostic/undecided |
Quantum mechanics | Agnostic/undecided |
Race |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Race categories | Lean towards: eliminate |
Rational disagreement | Lean towards: permissivism |
Response to external-world skepticism | Lean towards: contextualist |
Science | Accept an alternative view: narrative and contextual (which need not be anti-realism) |
Semantic content | Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all) |
Sleeping beauty | Agnostic/undecided |
Spacetime | Lean towards: relationism |
Statue and lump | Lean towards: two things |
Teletransporter | Lean towards: death |
Temporal ontology | Lean towards: presentism |
Theory of reference | Accept an alternative view: contextual |
Time | Agnostic/undecided |
Time travel | Lean towards: metaphysically impossible |
Trolley problem | Lean towards: switch |
True contradictions | Lean towards: actual |
Truth | Accept an alternative view: contextual |
Units of selection | Lean towards: organisms |
Vagueness | Lean towards: semantic |
Values in science | Accept: necessarily value-laden |
Well-being | Accept an alternative view: virtue theory |
Wittgenstein | Lean towards: late |
Zombies | Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible |