My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: pleasure
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: cosmological
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: primitive
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: yes
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Idealism
  • Lean towards Skepticism about the external world
  • Neutral towards Non-skeptical realism about the external world
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: libertarianism
God Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Accept: skeptic
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Agnostic/undecided
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Non-naturalism about morality
  • Lean towards Naturalist realism about morality
  • Reject Eonstructivism about morality
  • Reject Expressivism about morality
  • Reject Error theory of morality
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Fit is the most fundamental normative concept
  • Reject Ought is the most fundamental normative concept
  • Neutral towards Reason is the most fundamental normative concept
  • Lean towards Value is the most fundamental normative concept
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Other minds Agnostic/undecided
Ought implies can Agnostic/undecided
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against formal philosophy
  • Reject experimental philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Accept an alternative view: Perfectionism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Lean towards: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Science Lean towards: 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 Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Teletransporter Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Temporal ontology Lean towards: growing block
Theory of reference Accept: descriptive
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards epistemic
  • Lean towards metaphysical
  • Reject semantic
Values in science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being Accept: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Accept an alternative view: Neither
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible