My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: definitely anti-nominalist but not in any serious sense "Platonist"
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept an alternative view: None
Belief or credence Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Accept an alternative view: Talk of "causation" is, as Russell said, stone-age metaphysics
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept an alternative view: mix
Consciousness Accept: dualism
Continuum hypothesis The question is too unclear to answer
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Other
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept: set-theoretic
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender The question is too unclear to answer
Gender categories Lean towards: eliminate
God Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering The question is too unclear to answer
Hume The question is too unclear to answer
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept an alternative view: the only good metaphysics is descriptive metaphysics
Justification The question is too unclear to answer
Kant The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims There is no fact of the matter
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Agnostic/undecided
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept an alternative view: error theory
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Accept an alternative view: A bit of the one, a bit of the other, like law
Morality Accept: error theory
Newcomb's problem There is no fact of the matter
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics There is no fact of the matter
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: qualia theory
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept an alternative view: The answers to what have been philosophical questions have often come to be known, but then they are no longer philosophical
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against formal philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: libertarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept an alternative view: some kind of metalinguisticism
Properties Accept: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes The question is too unclear to answer
Propositions The question is too unclear to answer
Quantum mechanics Accept an alternative view: We are very far from being able separate objective and subjective aspects
Race Accept: social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism The question is too unclear to answer
Science The question is too unclear to answer
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-third
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology There is no fact of the matter
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards both have their place
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Agnostic/undecided
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-free
Well-being Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Accept an alternative view: A plague on both your houses
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible