My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience There is no fact of the matter
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Accept an alternative view: Pragmatism / use theories
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: pragmatic
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: permissible
Causation Accept: primitive
Chinese room The question is too unclear to answer
Concepts The question is too unclear to answer
Consciousness The question is too unclear to answer
Continuum hypothesis The question is too unclear to answer
Cosmological fine-tuning The question is too unclear to answer
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept an alternative view: vindication
Experience machine The question is too unclear to answer
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: set-theoretic
Free will The question is too unclear to answer
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality The question is too unclear to answer
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Accept: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics There is no fact of the matter
Justification Accept an alternative view: vindication
Kant Accept: one world
Knowledge Accept an alternative view: Pragmatism / use theories
Knowledge claims The question is too unclear to answer
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature The question is too unclear to answer
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept non-classical
  • Accept classical
Material composition There is no fact of the matter
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content The question is too unclear to answer
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology There is no fact of the matter
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles The question is too unclear to answer
Morality Lean towards: constructivism
Newcomb's problem There is no fact of the matter
Normative concepts Accept: ought
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: Not sure how you want to count 'Ignore the nutcase: is that pragmatic or dogmatist?
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean against fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience The question is too unclear to answer
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: none
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Accept Pragmatism / use theories
Philosophical progress There is no fact of the matter
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: true
Proper names The question is too unclear to answer
Properties There is no fact of the matter
Propositional attitudes The question is too unclear to answer
Propositions The question is too unclear to answer
Quantum mechanics Accept: many-worlds
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Science Lean towards: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty The question is too unclear to answer
Spacetime The question is too unclear to answer
Statue and lump The question is too unclear to answer
Teletransporter The question is too unclear to answer
Temporal ontology The question is too unclear to answer
Theory of reference Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against causal
  • Reject deflationary
  • Lean towards descriptive
Time The question is too unclear to answer
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept an alternative view: ought defeasibly pragmatically implies can
Units of selection Accept: genes
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being The question is too unclear to answer
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept: inconceivable