My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Accept: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Agnostic/undecided
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards design
  • Lean towards multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Agnostic/undecided
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Other
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: structuralism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Gender categories Skipped
God Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: primitive
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Skipped
Hume Skipped
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept an alternative view: parthood
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Agnostic/undecided
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Lean towards: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Agnostic/undecided
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept value
  • Lean towards fit
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Neutral towards current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Politics Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: concrete
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Lean towards: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept phenomenal
  • Accept representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: many-worlds
Race Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race categories Skipped
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept abductive
  • Accept dogmatist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: descriptive
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Agnostic/undecided
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: early
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible