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:
|
| 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:
|
| 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:
|
| 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 |