My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: understanding
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: wisdom
  • Neutral towards Aim of philosophy: happiness
  • Neutral towards Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
Analysis of knowledge Other
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Agnostic/undecided
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Accept an alternative view: dispositions
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts The question is too unclear to answer
Consciousness Accept an alternative view: Property dualism, but not substance dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind The question is too unclear to answer
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge The question is too unclear to answer
Foundations of mathematics There is no fact of the matter
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Gender: biological
  • Lean towards Gender: psychological
  • Lean towards Gender: social
  • Reject Gender: unreal
Gender categories Agnostic/undecided
God Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality Accept an alternative view: Dispositional/relational
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume The question is too unclear to answer
Immortality The question is too unclear to answer
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: identity
Justification Accept an alternative view: Foundherentism (Haack / Feldman)
Kant The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge Accept an alternative view: Foundherentism (Haack / Feldman)
Knowledge claims Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Contextualism about knowledge claims
  • Reject Relativism about knowledge claims
  • Lean towards Invariantism about knowledge claims
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in history of philosophy Accept an alternative view: Hybridism/pluralism
Method in political philosophy Accept an alternative view: Hybridism/pluralism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Normative concepts The question is too unclear to answer
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Adult humans are conscious
  • Accept Cats are conscious
  • Accept Fish are conscious
  • Lean towards Flies are conscious
  • Neutral towards Worms are conscious
  • Reject Plants are conscious
  • Reject Particles are conscious
  • Accept Newborn babies are conscious
  • Reject Current AI systems are conscious
  • Lean towards Future AI systems are conscious
  • Lean towards Different for different purposes
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Philosophical knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject There is no philosophical knowledge
  • Neutral towards There is little philosophical knowledge
  • Neutral towards There is a lot of philosophical knowledge
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept 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
  • Accept Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Pluralism
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Accept an alternative view: pragmatism
Possible worlds Accept an alternative view: Fictionalism
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Properties Lean towards: tropes
Propositional attitudes Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Dispositional views of propositional attitudes
  • Lean against Phenomenal views of propositional attitudes
  • Accept Representational views of propositional attitudes
  • Reject Eliminativism about propositional attitudes
Propositions Agnostic/undecided
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race categories The question is too unclear to answer
Rational disagreement Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump The question is too unclear to answer
Temporal ontology Accept: presentism
Theory of reference Agnostic/undecided
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
True contradictions The question is too unclear to answer
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Genes are the unit of natural selection
  • Neutral towards Organisms are the unit of natural selection
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Hedonism or experientialism about well-being
  • Neutral towards Desire satisfaction views of well-being
  • Lean towards Objective list views of well-being
Wittgenstein Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards I prefer the early Wittgenstein
  • Lean towards I prefer the late Wittgenstein