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