My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: wisdom
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept: counterfactual/difference-making
Concepts Accept: nativism
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Accept an alternative view: Unanswerable per E Machery
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards social
  • Accept psychological
  • Reject unreal
  • Accept biological
God Accept: atheism
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Agnostic/undecided
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Mind Accept an alternative view: The mind is what the brain does
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards egalitarianism
  • Accept libertarianism
  • Neutral towards communitarianism
Proper names Accept an alternative view: Ruth B Marcus Tags
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept biological
  • Reject unreal
  • Lean towards social
Science Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: actual
Truth Accept: correspondence
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible