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John Greco

Georgetown UniversitySaint Louis University
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Brown University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1989
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Religion
Metaphysics and Epistemology

My Survey Responses

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