My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Accept: pleasure
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept: primitive
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: logicism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: biological
Gender categories Accept: preserve
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: primitive
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: grounding
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life Lean towards: objective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept: constructivism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Accept an alternative view: Direct reference plus Kaplanian metalinguistic character
Properties Accept: classes
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Accept: simple entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: biological
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: dogmatist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Agnostic/undecided
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible