My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Arguments for theism Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: nonexistent
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Eliminativism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Lean towards Dualism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Reject Type-identity theories of phenomenal consciousness
  • Neutral towards Functionalism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Lean towards Panpsychism about consciousness
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Lean towards: yes
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge There is no fact of the matter
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: logicism
Free will Lean towards: no free will
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject biological
  • Neutral towards social
  • Lean towards unreal
  • Lean towards psychological
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Agnostic/undecided
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Agnostic/undecided
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading There is no fact of the matter
Moral judgment Agnostic/undecided
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Morality Agnostic/undecided
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Lean against particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can There is no fact of the matter
Perceptual experience Lean towards: qualia theory
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Properties Lean towards: classes
Propositional attitudes Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards dispositional
  • Lean against nonexistent
  • Lean towards phenomenal
  • Lean against representational
Propositions Lean towards: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science Lean towards: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-half
Spacetime Accept: relationism
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem There is no fact of the matter
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being There is no fact of the matter
Wittgenstein Agnostic/undecided
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible