My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Agnostic/undecided
Arguments for theism Agnostic/undecided
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Lean towards: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Lean towards: ought
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Properties Accept: nonexistent
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject revise
  • Lean towards preserve
  • Accept eliminate
Rational disagreement Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: contextualist
Science Agnostic/undecided
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept one thing
  • Accept two things
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Accept: epistemic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible