My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept an alternative view: evolutionary a posteriori is conceptual a priori [Lorenz]
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept: sui generis
Aesthetic value Agnostic/undecided
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism There is no fact of the matter
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: eliminativism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards externalism
  • Lean towards internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept: formalism
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards biological
  • Neutral towards psychological
  • Lean towards social
  • Reject unreal
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: interpretational
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Accept: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: realization
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards internalism
  • Lean towards externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept: error theory
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Neutral towards current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can There is no fact of the matter
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Accept: tropes
Propositional attitudes Accept: dispositional
Propositions Accept: acts
Quantum mechanics Accept: hidden-variables
Race Accept: unreal
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Accept: relationism
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions The question is too unclear to answer
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Accept an alternative view: Multilevel selection
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept an alternative view: Zombie realism