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University of Notre Dame Australia
School of Philosophy and Theology, Fremantle

Regular Faculty

Murdoch University

Department of Philosophy

PhD, 2003

Areas of Specialization

Philosophy of Mind

General Philosophy of Science

Continental Philosophy

Areas of Interest

Metaphysics

Philosophy of Mind

Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

General Philosophy of Science

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt	Response
A priori knowledge	Lean towards: yes
Abortion	Lean towards: impermissible
Abstract objects	Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience	Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value	Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Accept understanding Accept goodness/justice Accept truth/knowledge Accept happiness Accept wisdom
Analysis of knowledge	Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction	Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards cosmological Neutral towards pragmatic Neutral towards moral Lean against ontological Lean towards design
Belief or credence	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards neither Lean towards belief Lean towards credence
Capital punishment	Lean towards: impermissible
Causation	Accept: process/production
Chinese room	Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts	Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness	Lean towards: panpsychism
Continuum hypothesis	Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards design Neutral towards multiverse Lean against no fine-tuning Neutral towards brute fact
Eating animals and animal products	Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics	Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification	Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine	Lean towards: no
Extended mind	Lean towards: yes
External world	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards non-skeptical realism Neutral towards idealism Neutral towards skepticism
Footbridge	Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics	Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will	Accept: compatibilism
Gender	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards social Lean towards psychological Neutral towards biological Neutral towards unreal
Gender categories	Lean towards: revise
God	Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards primitive Neutral towards phenomenal Neutral towards inferential Lean towards causal/teleological Lean towards interpretational
Hard problem of consciousness	Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering	Lean towards: permissible
Hume	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards naturalist Lean towards skeptic
Immortality	Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards supervenience Lean towards grounding Lean towards identity Neutral towards realization
Justification	Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant	Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge	Accept a combination of answers: Accept empiricism Accept rationalism
Knowledge claims	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards relativism Lean towards invariantism Lean towards contextualism
Law	Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature	Accept: non-Humean
Logic	Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition	Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against nonexistent Lean towards subjective Lean towards objective
Mental content	Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards moral anti-realism Accept moral realism
Metaontology	Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy	Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy	Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy	Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind	Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading	Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards cognitivism Neutral towards non-cognitivism
Moral motivation	Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles	Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality	Lean towards: expressivism
Newcomb's problem	Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts	Accept: value
Normative ethics	Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards adult humans Neutral towards cats Neutral towards fish Neutral towards flies Neutral towards worms Neutral towards plants Neutral towards particles Neutral towards newborn babies Lean against current AI systems Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can	Accept: yes
Perceptual experience	Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards psychological view Lean towards further-fact view Neutral towards biological view
Philosophical knowledge	Accept: a little
Philosophical methods	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards empirical philosophy Neutral towards conceptual engineering Neutral towards experimental philosophy Neutral towards linguistic philosophy Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy Neutral towards formal philosophy Neutral towards conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress	Accept: a lot
Plato	Accept a combination of answers: Accept knowledge only of forms Lean towards knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy	Lean towards: communitarianism
Politics	Accept: socialism
Possible worlds	Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason	Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason	Lean towards: true
Proper names	Accept: Fregean
Properties	Lean towards: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes	Lean towards: representational
Propositions	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards simple entities Lean against nonexistent Lean towards acts Lean towards sets Accept structured entities
Quantum mechanics	Accept: hidden-variables
Race	Lean towards: unreal
Race categories	Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement	Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism	Lean towards: abductive
Science	Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content	Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime	Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump	Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards survival Lean towards death
Temporal ontology	Lean towards: growing block
Theory of reference	Lean towards: causal
Time	Lean towards: A-theory
Time travel	Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem	Agnostic/undecided
True contradictions	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards actual Neutral towards impossible Neutral towards possible but non-actual
Truth	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards epistemic Lean against deflationary Lean towards correspondence
Units of selection	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards organisms Lean towards genes
Vagueness	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards epistemic Neutral towards semantic Accept metaphysical
Values in science	Lean towards: can be either
Well-being	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards objective list Lean towards desire satisfaction Lean towards hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein	Lean towards: late
Zombies	Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible

Joseph Naimo

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