University of Arizona
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1997
Newark, Delaware, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology
Philosophy of Mind
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Probability
PhilPapers Editorships
Sleeping Beauty

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 Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards understanding
  • Lean towards wisdom
  • Reject happiness
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
  • Reject goodness/justice
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Lean towards: primitive
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Lean towards: skepticism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Agnostic/undecided
Free will Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards no free will
  • Reject compatibilism
  • Neutral towards libertarianism
Gender Accept: biological
Gender categories The question is too unclear to answer
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Lean towards: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept: ideal theory
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem There is no fact of the matter
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Reject fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: qualia theory
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject empirical philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Reject linguistic philosophy
  • Reject experimental philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Reject conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards libertarianism
  • Reject communitarianism
  • Neutral towards egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Accept: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: phenomenal
Propositions Lean towards: simple entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: biological
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: minimalism (no more than a few)
Sleeping beauty Lean towards: one-half
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: presentism
Theory of reference Agnostic/undecided
Time Accept: A-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept genes
  • Accept organisms
  • Accept groups
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-free
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible