My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards perception
  • Lean against sui generis
  • Lean towards pleasure
Aesthetic value The question is too unclear to answer
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept an alternative view: They're all terrible.
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room The question is too unclear to answer
Concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empiricism
  • Accept nativism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: structuralism
Free will The question is too unclear to answer
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards biological
  • Lean towards social
  • Lean towards psychological
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: realization
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic There is no fact of the matter
Material composition Accept an alternative view: Deflationism
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Accept: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Lean towards: sets
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: collapse
Race The question is too unclear to answer
Race categories The question is too unclear to answer
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: epistemic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Lean towards: one-half
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: growing block
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-free
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible