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Louis deRosset

University of Vermont
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UCLA
Department Of Philosophy
Alumnus
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Burlington, Vermont, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Language
Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Mind
Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Science, Logic, and Mathematics
PhilPapers Editorships
Critiques and Defenses of Grounding

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Lean against goodness/justice
  • Lean against happiness
  • Accept understanding
  • Neutral towards wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Agnostic/undecided
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Agnostic/undecided
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept an alternative view: abstractionism/postulationism
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
God Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: primitive
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept identity
  • Reject supervenience
  • Accept realization
  • Accept grounding
Justification Agnostic/undecided
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept non-classical
  • Accept classical
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life Agnostic/undecided
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy There is no fact of the matter
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: qualia theory
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Agnostic/undecided
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Lean towards: one-third
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Agnostic/undecided
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards correspondence
  • Reject epistemic
  • Lean towards deflationary
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards genes
  • Accept organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible