My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against pragmatic
  • Lean against design
  • Lean against ontological
  • Lean against cosmological
  • Lean against moral
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Agnostic/undecided
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: no free will
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Agnostic/undecided
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Agnostic/undecided
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Agnostic/undecided
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law The question is too unclear to answer
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Agnostic/undecided
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Lean towards: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: disjunctivism
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Accept: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: biological
Race categories Agnostic/undecided
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards abductive
  • Lean against semantic externalist
  • Neutral towards dogmatist
  • Lean against contextualist
  • Lean against epistemic externalist
  • Reject pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: growing block
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Agnostic/undecided
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards early
  • Neutral towards late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible