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James Reilly

University of Notre Dame
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: impermissible
Abstract objects Other
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: understanding
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: wisdom
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: happiness
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept The cosmological argument is the strongest argument for theism
  • Accept The design argument is the strongest argument for theism
  • Lean towards The ontological argument is the strongest argument for theism
  • Lean towards The pragmatic argument is the strongest argument for theism
  • Lean towards The moral argument is the strongest argument for theism
Belief or credence Accept: belief
Capital punishment Accept an alternative view: Permissible in principle; not permissible in practice (in most societies or cases).
Causation Lean towards: primitive
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Consciousness Accept: dualism
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: design
Eating animals and animal products Agnostic/undecided
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Lean towards: libertarianism
God Accept: theism
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: impermissible
Immortality Accept: yes
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Normative ethics: deontology
  • Reject Normative ethics: consequentialism
  • Accept Normative ethics: virtue ethics
Personal identity Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Personal identity: biological view
  • Reject Personal identity: psychological view
  • Accept Personal identity: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: true
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Rational disagreement Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: epistemic externalist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Temporal ontology Lean towards: presentism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Wittgenstein Accept: late