My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abstract objects There is no fact of the matter
Aesthetic value Lean towards: 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
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Gender is biological
  • Lean against Gender is psychological
  • Accept Gender is social
  • Reject Gender is unreal
God Accept: theism
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Metaontology Accept: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Race Lean towards: social
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
Truth Accept: deflationary
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible