My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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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 |