My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Other
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment The question is too unclear to answer
Causation Accept an alternative view: Subsumption by laws that are included in the most comprehensive closed system of laws capable of capturing whatever generalities there are including probabilistic laws.
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Other
Consciousness The question is too unclear to answer
Continuum hypothesis Agnostic/undecided
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products The question is too unclear to answer
Environmental ethics Other
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: skepticism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Agnostic/undecided
Free will Other
Gender The question is too unclear to answer
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering The question is too unclear to answer
Hume Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept naturalist
  • Accept skeptic
Immortality Agnostic/undecided
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: realization
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Accept: two worlds
Knowledge Other
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content The question is too unclear to answer
Meta-ethics The question is too unclear to answer
Metaontology Skipped
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Other
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Agnostic/undecided
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can Other
Perceptual experience Lean towards: qualia theory
Personal identity Accept an alternative view: Hybrid of biological and psychological.
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics The question is too unclear to answer
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Other
Properties Lean towards: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes The question is too unclear to answer
Propositions Accept an alternative view: Theoretically useless.
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Other
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Other
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content The question is too unclear to answer
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-half
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Accept an alternative view: Some is descriptive, some direct, but only to the self and the present time, and this is primitive, not causal.
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Other
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Other
Units of selection Accept: organisms
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science The question is too unclear to answer
Well-being Lean towards: desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Other
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible