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Luca Barlassina

University of Sheffield
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Università degli Studi di Milano
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2011
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Philosophy of Psychology
Philosophy of Mind
Areas of Interest
Emotions
Pain and Pain Experience
Somatic and Feeling Theories of Emotion
Theory of Mind and Folk Psychology
The Simulation Theory

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