My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept: perception
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: pragmatic
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: understands
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Accept: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Agnostic/undecided
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept: formalism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept an alternative view: Logical pluralism
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Accept: fit
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Neutral towards current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Agnostic/undecided
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Accept: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: revise
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: epistemic externalist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Accept: metaphysical
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible