My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards nominalism
  • Neutral towards Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Lean towards: ontological
Belief or credence Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: eliminativism
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 Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: yes
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world The question is too unclear to answer
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will Lean towards: no free will
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards social
  • Lean against biological
  • Lean towards psychological
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: interpretational
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Accept: coherentism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Lean towards: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: constructivism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts The question is too unclear to answer
Normative ethics The question is too unclear to answer
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards adult humans
  • Lean against cats
  • Lean against fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: none
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: none
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Lean towards: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Lean towards: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: epistemic
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards unreal
  • Lean towards social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: semantic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter 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 impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept an alternative view: Possible but unconfirmed
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies The question is too unclear to answer