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Lilith Edge

Adelaide University
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Arguments for theism: cosmological
  • Reject Arguments for theism: design
  • Lean against Arguments for theism: ontological
  • Reject Arguments for theism: pragmatic
  • Reject Arguments for theism: moral
Belief or credence Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: nonexistent
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: panpsychism
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Experience machine Accept: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Free will Lean towards: no free will
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Gender: social
  • Lean towards Gender: unreal
Gender categories Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Gender categories: revise
  • Lean towards Gender categories: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: relativism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Moral judgment: cognitivism
  • Lean towards Moral judgment: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Morality Lean towards: error theory
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Other minds: adult humans
  • Accept Other minds: cats
  • Accept Other minds: fish
  • Accept Other minds: flies
  • Accept Other minds: worms
  • Lean towards Other minds: plants
  • Neutral towards Other minds: particles
  • Accept Other minds: newborn babies
  • Neutral towards Other minds: current AI systems
  • Accept Other minds: future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Personal identity: biological view
  • Lean against Personal identity: psychological view
  • Reject Personal identity: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical progress Lean towards: none
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Race Lean towards: unreal
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific anti-realism
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Teletransporter: survival
  • Lean towards Teletransporter: death
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Truth: correspondence
  • Lean towards Truth: deflationary
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Well-being: hedonism/experientialism
  • Lean towards Well-being: desire satisfaction
Zombies Lean towards: inconceivable