My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic value Agnostic/undecided
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: happiness
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: cosmological
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Epistemic justification The question is too unclear to answer
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Accept: libertarianism
Gender Lean towards: social
God Accept: theism
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
  • Reject The mereological sum of all of the above
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Agnostic/undecided
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Reject linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Race Lean towards: social
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: A-theory
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Well-being Accept: objective list
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible