My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Agnostic/undecided
Belief or credence Accept: neither
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Agnostic/undecided
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Lean towards: panpsychism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Insufficiently familiar with the issue
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept an alternative view: non-theistic god
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Accept: naturalist
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content The question is too unclear to answer
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Accept: ideal theory
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading The question is too unclear to answer
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Neutral towards current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: disjunctivism
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Reject formal philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Accept: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Accept: revise
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: pragmatic
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem There is no fact of the matter
True contradictions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept: organisms
Vagueness The question is too unclear to answer
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies The question is too unclear to answer