Joe Roussos

Institute for Futures Studies

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards wisdom
  • Lean towards happiness
  • Lean towards understanding
  • Accept goodness/justice
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
God Accept: atheism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: Anti theory
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Race Accept: social
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Science Accept: scientific anti-realism
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible