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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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 |