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Jason Byas

Georgetown University
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
PhD, 2025
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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Law
Normative Ethics
Value Theory
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Law
Normative Ethics
Meta-Ethics
Applied Ethics
Value Theory
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abstract objects Other
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Truth/knowledge is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Understanding is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Wisdom is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean towards Happiness is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean towards Goodness/justice is an important aim of philosophy
Arguments for theism Accept: cosmological
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Lean towards: libertarianism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: revise
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Hume Accept: skeptic
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in political philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Non-naturalism about morality
  • Lean towards Naturalist realism about morality
  • Lean towards Constructivism about morality
  • Reject Expressivism about morality
  • Reject Error theory of morality
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Deontology
  • Reject Consequentialism
  • Accept Virtue ethics
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Political philosophy Accept: libertarianism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Properties Lean towards: immanent universals
Race Lean towards: unreal
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Well-being Other
Wittgenstein Accept: late