My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abstract objects There is no fact of the matter
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Belief or credence Accept: neither
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept counterfactual/difference-making
  • Lean towards nonexistent
  • Reject primitive
  • Neutral towards process/production
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Continuum hypothesis Accept: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Agnostic/undecided
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: yes
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world There is no fact of the matter
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards formalism
  • Lean towards structuralism
  • Lean towards logicism
  • Lean towards constructivism/intuitionism
  • Lean against set-theoretic
Free will Lean towards: no free will
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards unreal
  • Neutral towards psychological
  • Lean towards social
  • Reject biological
Gender categories Lean towards: eliminate
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Skipped
Interlevel metaphysics The question is too unclear to answer
Justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject nonreliabilist foundationalism
  • Lean towards reliabilism
  • Lean towards coherentism
  • Lean against infinitism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: relativism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic There is no fact of the matter
Material composition There is no fact of the matter
Mental content Agnostic/undecided
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept: anti-realism
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept contextual/historicist
  • Accept analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Agnostic/undecided
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards constructivism
  • Lean towards error theory
  • Reject naturalist realism
  • Lean towards expressivism
  • Reject non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts There is no fact of the matter
Normative ethics There is no fact of the matter
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Neutral towards plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Neutral towards current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Agnostic/undecided
Personal identity Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: none
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: none
Plato Agnostic/undecided
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards communitarianism
  • Lean towards egalitarianism
  • Reject libertarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions There is no fact of the matter
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards social
  • Lean towards biological
  • Lean towards unreal
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards eternalism
  • Lean towards presentism
  • Lean against growing block
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Agnostic/undecided
Time travel Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions There is no fact of the matter
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness There is no fact of the matter
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being There is no fact of the matter
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible