My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Accept: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: identity
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Neutral towards cats
  • Lean against fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: qualia theory
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Reject experimental philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics The question is too unclear to answer
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Lean towards: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: collapse
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: dogmatist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: minimalism (no more than a few)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: presentism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible