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Lok-Chi Chan

National Taiwan University
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject The cosmological argument is the strongest argument for theism
  • Reject The design argument is the strongest argument for theism
  • Reject The ontological argument is the strongest argument for theism
  • Reject The pragmatic argument is the strongest argument for theism
  • Reject The moral argument is the strongest argument for theism
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment Accept: permissible
Causation Accept: primitive
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Accept an alternative view: Neuroscience
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Other
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Internalism about justification
  • Accept Externalism about justification
Experience machine Other
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept an alternative view: Kantianism
Footbridge Accept: push
Free will Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Compatibilism about free will
  • Reject Libertarianism about free will
  • Reject Eliminativism about free will
Gender Accept: social
God Accept: atheism
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Justification Accept: coherentism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Accept an alternative view: Naturalism.
Knowledge claims Accept an alternative view: computational philosophy
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept an alternative view: moral constructivism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Accept: constructivism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Lean towards: fit
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: social construction
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Adult humans are conscious
  • Lean towards Cats are conscious
  • Neutral towards Fish are conscious
  • Lean against Flies are conscious
  • Reject Worms are conscious
  • Reject Plants are conscious
  • Reject Particles are conscious
  • Lean towards Newborn babies are conscious
  • Reject Current AI systems are conscious
  • Neutral towards Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: qualia theory
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against 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 against Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Political philosophy Accept an alternative view: This is a matter for political negotiation
Politics Accept an alternative view: This is a matter for political negotiation
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Lean towards: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Accept: phenomenal
Propositions Accept: nonexistent
Race Agnostic/undecided
Race categories Lean towards: preserve
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Science Accept an alternative view: It depends
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Theory of reference Accept an alternative view: It depends
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Genes are the unit of natural selection
  • Accept Organisms are the unit of natural selection
Vagueness Accept: metaphysical
Values in science Accept: can be either
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible