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Eschwege, HE, Germany

Areas of Interest

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt	Response
A priori knowledge	Accept: yes
Abortion	Lean towards: impermissible
Abstract objects	Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic value	Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Truth/knowledge is an important aim of philosophy Accept Understanding is an important aim of philosophy Accept Wisdom is an important aim of philosophy Lean against Happiness is an important aim of philosophy Lean towards Goodness/justice is an important aim of philosophy
Analytic-synthetic distinction	Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards The cosmological argument is the strongest argument for theism Lean towards The design argument is the strongest argument for theism Reject The ontological argument is the strongest argument for theism Reject The pragmatic argument is the strongest argument for theism Lean against The moral argument is the strongest argument for theism Accept Argument from consciousness
Capital punishment	Accept: impermissible
Chinese room	Accept: doesn't understand
Consciousness	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against Dualism about phenomenal consciousness Reject Eliminativism about phenomenal consciousness Reject Functionalism about phenomenal consciousness Reject Type-identity theories of phenomenal consciousness Lean against Panpsychism about consciousness Accept idealism
Cosmological fine-tuning	Accept: design
Eating animals and animal products	Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics	Accept: non-anthropocentric
Experience machine	Accept: no
External world	Accept: idealism
Footbridge	Accept: don't push
Free will	Accept: libertarianism
God	Accept: theism
Hard problem of consciousness	Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering	Lean towards: impermissible
Immortality	Lean towards: yes
Knowledge	Accept an alternative view: both
Knowledge claims	Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature	Lean towards: non-Humean
Material composition	Lean towards: nihilism
Meaning of life	Accept: objective
Meta-ethics	Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy	Accept: non-naturalism
Mind	Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading	Accept: death
Moral judgment	Accept: cognitivism
Newcomb's problem	Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts	Accept: value
Normative ethics	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards Deontology Reject Consequentialism Accept Virtue ethics
Other minds	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Adult humans are conscious Accept Cats are conscious Accept Fish are conscious Accept Flies are conscious Accept Worms are conscious Neutral towards Plants are conscious Reject Particles are conscious Accept Newborn babies are conscious Reject Current AI systems are conscious Reject Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can	Accept: yes
Personal identity	Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical knowledge	Accept: a little
Philosophical progress	Lean towards: a little
Political philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Reject Communitarianism in political philosophy Lean towards Egalitarianism in political philosophy Lean towards Libertarianism in political philosophy Accept social liberalism
Politics	Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds	Accept: abstract
Principle of sufficient reason	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards The principle of sufficient reason Lean towards The principle of sufficient reason is false
Race	Accept: unreal
Race categories	Accept an alternative view: Classical race theory is biologically false, but race as a construction has real effects.
Science	Lean towards: scientific realism
Teletransporter	Accept: death
Time travel	Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem	Accept: don't switch
True contradictions	Accept: impossible
Truth	Accept: correspondence
Units of selection	Lean towards: genes
Wittgenstein	Accept: late
Zombies	Accept: metaphysically possible

Johannes Felix Furch

My Survey Responses