My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: moderate (Aristotelian) realism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: cosmological
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Accept: primitive
Chinese room Accept: understands
Concepts Accept: nativism
Consciousness Accept: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world There is no fact of the matter
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept an alternative view: experimentalism
Free will Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept compatibilism
  • Reject libertarianism
  • Lean against no free will
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Agnostic/undecided
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept skeptic
  • Accept naturalist
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Lean towards: infinitism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: relativism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Accept an alternative view: Conservatism
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Agnostic/undecided
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept an alternative view: Non-reductive physicalism
Mind uploading There is no fact of the matter
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: constructivism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Agnostic/undecided
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Neutral towards plants
  • Lean against particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Neutral towards current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Lean towards: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept representational
  • Accept dispositional
  • Reject phenomenal
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Accept functional
Propositions Lean towards: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Lean towards: one-third
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Agnostic/undecided
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: actual
Truth Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept correspondence
  • Accept deflationary
  • Accept epistemic
Units of selection Accept: genes
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Accept: inconceivable