• Mississippi State University
    Department of Philosophy & Religion
    Neurobiology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Mississippi Medical Center
    Professor
Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Skipped
Abstract objects There is no fact of the matter
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Agnostic/undecided
Aim of philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Analysis of knowledge Skipped
Analytic-synthetic distinction Other
Arguments for theism Skipped
Belief or credence Skipped
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Skipped
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Skipped
Consciousness Accept: eliminativism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Skipped
Epistemic justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Lean towards: skepticism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Agnostic/undecided
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Accept: biological
Gender categories Skipped
God Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Accept: skeptic
Immortality Skipped
Interlevel metaphysics Skipped
Justification Accept an alternative view: At bottom, circularity.
Kant Skipped
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Skipped
Laws of nature There is no fact of the matter
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Agnostic/undecided
Mental content There is no fact of the matter
Meta-ethics There is no fact of the matter
Metaontology Skipped
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment The question is too unclear to answer
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral particularism
Morality Accept: error theory
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Lean towards: fit
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Skipped
Political philosophy Accept: libertarianism
Politics Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds There is no fact of the matter
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason There is no fact of the matter
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Properties There is no fact of the matter
Propositional attitudes Accept: nonexistent
Propositions Accept: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race categories Skipped
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept an alternative view: epistemic skepticism about human claims about external world
Science Accept an alternative view: Epistemic skepticism about human claims about reality, be it scientific or otherwise
Semantic content Skipped
Sleeping beauty Skipped
Spacetime Skipped
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Skipped
Theory of reference There is no fact of the matter
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Skipped
Truth Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Skipped
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Agnostic/undecided
Wittgenstein Skipped
Zombies There is no fact of the matter