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New Mexico State University
Department of Philosophy

Regular Faculty

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Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States of America

Areas of Specialization

Philosophy of Language

Areas of Interest

Philosophy of Language

Meta-Ethics

Normative Ethics

Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt	Response
A priori knowledge	Accept: yes
Abortion	Accept an alternative view: Contextualism
Abstract objects	Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards subjective Lean towards objective
Aim of philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards happiness Lean towards understanding Lean towards goodness/justice Lean towards wisdom Lean towards truth/knowledge Lean towards Hybrid of all five
Analysis of knowledge	Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction	Accept: yes
Arguments for theism	Lean towards: cosmological
Belief or credence	Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment	Lean towards: impermissible
Causation	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards process/production Lean towards counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room	The question is too unclear to answer
Concepts	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against panpsychism Lean against dualism Lean towards functionalism Lean against eliminativism Neutral towards identity theory
Continuum hypothesis	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards brute fact Neutral towards no fine-tuning Neutral towards multiverse Lean against design
Eating animals and animal products	Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics	Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards internalism Lean towards externalism Lean towards A hybrid of internalism and externalism
Experience machine	Accept: no
Extended mind	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
External world	Lean towards: skepticism
Footbridge	Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against constructivism/intuitionism Neutral towards structuralism Neutral towards set-theoretic Lean against formalism
Free will	Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender	The question is too unclear to answer
Gender categories	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
God	Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness	Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering	Lean towards: permissible
Hume	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards skeptic Lean towards naturalist
Immortality	Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards supervenience Lean towards realization Lean towards grounding
Justification	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards infinitism Lean against coherentism Lean against reliabilism Neutral towards nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards rationalism Lean towards empiricism Lean towards hybrid of both
Knowledge claims	Lean towards: contextualism
Law	Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature	Lean towards: Humean
Logic	Lean towards: classical
Material composition	Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life	Lean towards: subjective
Mental content	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meta-ethics	Accept: moral realism
Metaontology	Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards naturalism Lean towards non-naturalism Lean towards hybrid of both
Method in history of philosophy	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards non-ideal theory Lean towards ideal theory
Mind	Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading	Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment	Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation	Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles	Accept: moral generalism
Morality	Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem	Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts	Accept: value
Normative ethics	Accept: consequentialism
Other minds	Accept a combination of answers: Accept adult humans Accept cats Neutral towards fish Neutral towards flies Neutral towards worms Reject plants Reject particles Lean towards newborn babies Lean against current AI systems Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can	Accept: yes
Perceptual experience	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity	Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge	Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods	Accept a combination of answers: Reject experimental philosophy Lean towards conceptual analysis Neutral towards empirical philosophy Lean towards conceptual engineering Lean towards intuition-based philosophy Lean towards linguistic philosophy Neutral towards formal philosophy
Philosophical progress	Lean towards: a lot
Plato	The question is too unclear to answer
Political philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Reject libertarianism Reject communitarianism Reject egalitarianism Lean towards Consequentialism
Politics	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards capitalism Lean towards socialism Lean towards hybrid of both
Possible worlds	The question is too unclear to answer
Practical reason	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against Humean
Principle of sufficient reason	Lean towards: true
Proper names	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against Fregean Lean against Millian Lean towards hybrid of both
Properties	Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes	Lean towards: representational
Propositions	Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race	Accept: biological
Race categories	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement	Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards contextualist Lean towards pragmatic
Science	Agnostic/undecided
Semantic content	Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against substantivalism
Statue and lump	Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter	Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology	Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards descriptive Lean against deflationary Lean towards causal Lean towards Hybrid of causal and descriptive
Time	Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel	Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem	Accept: switch
True contradictions	Accept: impossible
Truth	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards deflationary Lean towards correspondence Lean against epistemic
Units of selection	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness	Lean towards: semantic
Values in science	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being	Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein	Lean towards: early
Zombies	Agnostic/undecided

Jean-Paul Vessel

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