John T. Maier

Lesley University

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation The question is too unclear to answer
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Skipped
Philosophical methods Skipped
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Proper names Accept: Millian
Science Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Time Skipped
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
Truth Accept: deflationary
Vagueness Agnostic/undecided
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible