University of Oxford
Faculty of Philosophy
DPhil, 2018
CV
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: impermissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Skipped
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Skipped
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: cosmological
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Accept: counterfactual/difference-making
Concepts Agnostic/undecided
Consciousness Accept: dualism
Continuum hypothesis The question is too unclear to answer
Eating animals and animal products Agnostic/undecided
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Accept: set-theoretic
Free will Accept: libertarianism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards biological
  • Lean against unreal
  • Lean towards social
  • Lean towards psychological
Gender categories There is no fact of the matter
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Skipped
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Skipped
Justification Skipped
Kant Skipped
Knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Skipped
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: survival
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject naturalist realism
  • Lean towards non-naturalism
  • Reject expressivism
  • Lean against error theory
  • Lean towards constructivism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards value
  • Neutral towards fit
  • Lean against ought
  • Lean towards reasons
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards consequentialism
  • Lean towards virtue ethics
  • Neutral towards deontology
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: qualia theory
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Political philosophy Lean towards: libertarianism
Possible worlds Accept: concrete
Proper names Accept an alternative view: Kripke
Propositions Skipped
Quantum mechanics Accept: many-worlds
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards biological
  • Neutral towards unreal
  • Lean towards social
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Science Accept: scientific realism
Sleeping beauty Accept an alternative view: 1/2 for N=1, 1/3 for N=inf
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept epistemic
  • Accept correspondence
Units of selection There is no fact of the matter
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards epistemic
  • Lean towards semantic
  • Lean against metaphysical
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against desire satisfaction
  • Lean towards objective list
  • Neutral towards hedonism/experientialism
  • Lean towards preference satisfaction
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible