My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: there are (Platonic) abstract objects designated by some terms, but nominalism holds for many terms
Aesthetic experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards pleasure
  • Lean towards perception
  • Lean towards sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject ontological
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject design
  • Reject moral
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Accept: permissible
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis Accept: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: yes
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Accept: set-theoretic
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject unreal
  • Lean towards social
  • Lean towards psychological
  • Accept biological
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: primitive
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: identity
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Accept: universalism
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: survival
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Reject fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Neutral towards newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Reject conceptual engineering
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Millian
  • Accept Fregean
Properties Accept: tropes
Propositional attitudes Accept an alternative view: each of representational, dispositional, phenomenal corresponds to some propositional attitude
Propositions Accept: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: semantic externalist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: minimalism (no more than a few)
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-half
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Temporal ontology Lean towards: growing block
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept A-theory
  • Accept B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-free
Well-being Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Wittgenstein Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject early
  • Reject late
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible