My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic experience Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject ontological
  • Reject design
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject moral
Belief or credence Agnostic/undecided
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Accept: primitive
Chinese room The question is too unclear to answer
Concepts Accept an alternative view: Moderate nativism
Consciousness Accept an alternative view: representationalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Agnostic/undecided
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Accept: naturalist
Immortality Agnostic/undecided
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: realization
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject empiricism
  • Reject rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept an alternative view: both have their place
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
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
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept an alternative view: Must implies can
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Reject conceptual analysis
  • Reject linguistic philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Accept formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Lean towards: classes
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: hidden-variables
Race Accept: unreal
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept semantic externalist
  • Lean towards pragmatic
  • Accept epistemic externalist
  • Lean against contextualist
  • Lean against dogmatist
  • Lean against abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Agnostic/undecided
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Agnostic/undecided
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science The question is too unclear to answer
Well-being Agnostic/undecided
Wittgenstein Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards early
  • Reject late
Zombies Accept: inconceivable