My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Agnostic/undecided |
| Abstract objects | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Aesthetic value | There is no fact of the matter |
| Aim of philosophy | Accept: truth/knowledge |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Agnostic/undecided |
| Concepts | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Agnostic/undecided |
| Eating animals and animal products | Accept an alternative view: Consuming humanely raised and killed animals is fine. Factory farming is not |
| Epistemic justification | Agnostic/undecided |
| Experience machine | Accept an alternative view: Yes if significant loss of normal capacities. No if life is reasonably normal |
| External world | Lean towards: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Accept an alternative view: Depends on the relative value of the different people. If equal, then push |
| Free will | Lean towards: no free will |
| Gender | Accept: biological |
| God | Accept: atheism |
| Knowledge | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Knowledge claims | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Laws of nature | Agnostic/undecided |
| Logic | Agnostic/undecided |
| Meaning of life | Lean towards: subjective |
| Mental content | Agnostic/undecided |
| Meta-ethics | Lean towards: moral anti-realism |
| Metaphilosophy | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Mind | Agnostic/undecided |
| Moral judgment | Agnostic/undecided |
| Moral motivation | Agnostic/undecided |
| Morality | Lean towards: expressivism |
| Newcomb's problem | Lean towards: two boxes |
| Normative ethics | There is no fact of the matter |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Perceptual experience | Agnostic/undecided |
| Personal identity | Lean towards: psychological view |
| Philosophical methods | Other |
| Philosophical progress | Accept an alternative view: Progress in philosophy of science. Devastating regress in moral and political philosophy because of political correctness |
| Political philosophy | There is no fact of the matter |
| Proper names | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Race | Accept: biological |
| Science | Accept: scientific realism |
| Semantic content | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Sleeping beauty | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Spacetime | Agnostic/undecided |
| Statue and lump | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Teletransporter | Accept: survival |
| Theory of reference | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Time | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Trolley problem | Accept an alternative view: Depends on the value of people involved. If unknown, then switch |
| Truth | Lean towards: correspondence |
| Vagueness | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Well-being | There is no fact of the matter |
| Zombies | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |