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Juniper Ponce

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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Truth/knowledge is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Understanding is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Wisdom is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean towards Happiness is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Goodness/justice is an important aim of philosophy
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards The cosmological argument is the strongest argument for theism
  • Lean towards The design argument is the strongest argument for theism
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Dualism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Neutral towards Eliminativism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Lean towards Functionalism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Lean towards Type-identity theories of phenomenal consciousness
  • Neutral towards Panpsychism about consciousness
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Agnostic/undecided
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: formalism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Gender is psychological
  • Accept Gender is social
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: grounding
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Accept: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Humeanism about laws of nature
  • Accept Non-Humeanism about laws of nature
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition There is no fact of the matter
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Agnostic/undecided
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Adult humans are conscious
  • Accept Cats are conscious
  • Accept Fish are conscious
  • Neutral towards Flies are conscious
  • Lean against Worms are conscious
  • Reject Plants are conscious
  • Reject Particles are conscious
  • Accept Newborn babies are conscious
  • Lean against Current AI systems are conscious
  • Neutral towards Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: concrete
Practical reason Accept: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Accept: Fregean
Properties Lean towards: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Accept: many-worlds
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Race is biological
  • Lean towards Race is social
  • Lean towards Race is unreal
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards An abductive response to external-world skepticism is strongest
  • Neutral towards A contextualist response to external-world skepticism is strongest
  • Lean towards A dogmatist response to external-world skepticism is strongest
  • Lean towards An epistemic externalist response to external-world skepticism is strongest
  • Neutral towards A semantic externalist response to external-world skepticism is strongest
  • Neutral towards A pragmatic response to external-world skepticism is strongest
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Many but not most terms/expressions are contextual
  • Lean towards Most or all terms/expressions are contextual
Sleeping beauty Lean towards: one-third
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: actual
Truth Accept: deflationary
Units of selection Accept: genes
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Accept: desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: inconceivable