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John Bunch

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Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Analytic-synthetic distinction There is no fact of the matter
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Concepts There is no fact of the matter
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: yes
External world Agnostic/undecided
Footbridge Accept: push
Free will Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Gender Lean towards: social
God Accept: atheism
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge There is no fact of the matter
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Laws of nature Agnostic/undecided
Logic Agnostic/undecided
Meaning of life There is no fact of the matter
Mental content Agnostic/undecided
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Agnostic/undecided
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Accept an alternative view: Skepticism
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Race Lean towards: social
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Teletransporter Accept: death
Time Accept: B-theory
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: hedonism/experientialism
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible