My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: happiness
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
God Lean towards: atheism
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Agnostic/undecided
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept an alternative view: Pragmatism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Newcomb's problem There is no fact of the matter
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Perceptual experience Lean towards: qualia theory
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: unreal
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Science Lean towards: scientific anti-realism
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
Truth Accept: epistemic
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible