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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: Conceptualism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: pleasure
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Truth/knowledge is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Understanding is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Wisdom is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Happiness is an important aim of philosophy
  • Accept Goodness/justice is an important aim of philosophy
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept: process/production
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Dualism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Reject Eliminativism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Reject Functionalism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Lean towards Type-identity theories of phenomenal consciousness
  • Lean towards Panpsychism about consciousness
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Accept: naturalist
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Grounding is the most useful relation in interlevel metaphysics
  • Lean towards Identity is the most useful relation in interlevel metaphysics
  • Lean towards Realization is the most useful relation in interlevel metaphysics
  • Accept Supervenience is the most useful relation in interlevel metaphysics
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Accept: one world
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept: ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Non-naturalism about morality
  • Accept Naturalist realism about morality
  • Accept Constructivism about morality
  • Reject Expressivism about morality
  • Reject Error theory of morality
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Accept: reasons
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
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
  • Lean towards Worms are conscious
  • Reject Plants are conscious
  • Reject Particles are conscious
  • Accept Newborn babies are conscious
  • Reject Current AI systems are conscious
  • Reject Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: qualia theory
Personal identity Accept an alternative view: Hybrid 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
  • Lean against Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Accept an alternative view: Liberal Egalitarianism - i.e., Rawls
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Aristotelianism about practical reason
  • Reject Humeanism about practical reason
  • Lean towards Kantianism about practical reason
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: true
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Lean towards: tropes
Propositional attitudes Accept: phenomenal
Propositions Accept: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: hidden-variables
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: dogmatist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-half
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology The question is too unclear to answer
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: A-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept: organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Hedonism or experientialism about well-being
  • Reject Desire satisfaction views of well-being
  • Accept Objective list views of well-being
Wittgenstein Accept: early
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible