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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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 |