My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Other |
| Abortion | Accept: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Other |
| Aesthetic experience | Accept: perception |
| Aesthetic value |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Aim of philosophy | Accept: understanding |
| Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: justified true belief |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Accept an alternative view: Pragmatist |
| Arguments for theism | Accept: moral |
| Belief or credence | Accept: belief |
| Capital punishment | Lean towards: impermissible |
| Causation | Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making |
| Chinese room | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Concepts | Accept an alternative view: constructivist view |
| Consciousness | Accept an alternative view: Context dependent |
| Continuum hypothesis | Other |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Eating animals and animal products | Lean towards: veganism (no and no) |
| Environmental ethics | Accept: non-anthropocentric |
| Epistemic justification | Lean towards: internalism |
| Experience machine | Accept: yes |
| Extended mind | Accept: yes |
| External world | Accept an alternative view: pragmatism |
| Footbridge | Accept an alternative view: One should decide on context |
| Foundations of mathematics |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Free will | Lean towards: compatibilism |
| Gender |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Gender categories | Accept: preserve |
| God | Accept: atheism |
| Grounds of intentionality | Lean towards: interpretational |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Lean towards: yes |
| Human genetic engineering | Accept an alternative view: Must be contextualized |
| Hume | Accept: skeptic |
| Immortality | Accept: no |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Lean towards: grounding |
| Justification | Accept an alternative view: I accept moral learning |
| Kant | Accept an alternative view: pragmatism |
| Knowledge | Accept an alternative view: kantian/pragmatist -- dont like the ding an sich, but i would not say i am an out and out idealist like berkeley -- cannot solve the problem and not that bothered |
| Knowledge claims |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Law | Accept an alternative view: Interpretivism |
| Laws of nature | Lean towards: Humean |
| Logic | Accept: classical |
| Material composition | Accept: universalism |
| Meaning of life |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Mental content |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Meta-ethics | Accept an alternative view: Pragmatist |
| Metaontology | Other |
| Metaphilosophy | Other |
| Method in history of philosophy | Accept: contextual/historicist |
| Method in political philosophy | Accept an alternative view: Pragmatist |
| Mind | Accept an alternative view: pragmatism |
| Mind uploading | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Moral judgment | Accept: cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Accept an alternative view: Functionalist/pragmatist |
| Moral principles | Accept an alternative view: moral responsibility |
| Morality | Lean towards: constructivism |
| Newcomb's problem | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Normative concepts | Accept: reasons |
| Normative ethics | Accept: deontology |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Ought implies can | Accept: no |
| Perceptual experience | Accept: representationalism |
| Personal identity | Lean towards: psychological view |
| Philosophical knowledge | Lean towards: a lot |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Accept an alternative view: I accept moral learning |
| Plato | Accept: knowledge only of forms |
| Political philosophy | Accept: egalitarianism |
| Politics | Accept: socialism |
| Possible worlds | Other |
| Practical reason | Accept: Kantian |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Accept an alternative view: Pragmatist |
| Proper names | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Properties | Accept: immanent universals |
| Propositional attitudes | Other |
| Propositions | Accept: structured entities |
| Quantum mechanics | Accept: many-worlds |
| Race | Accept an alternative view: Race is a social construct based in part on (a complicates suit) of biological properties. |
| Race categories | Accept: eliminate |
| Rational disagreement | Accept: permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Accept: pragmatic |
| Science | There is no fact of the matter |
| Semantic content | Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate) |
| Sleeping beauty | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Spacetime | Accept: relationism |
| Statue and lump | Other |
| Teletransporter | Other |
| Temporal ontology | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Theory of reference | Accept an alternative view: pragmatism |
| Time | Accept an alternative view: pragmatist -- i dont see a hardline division -- depends on the circumstances and what works |
| Time travel | Other |
| Trolley problem | Lean towards: don't switch |
| True contradictions | Other |
| Truth | Accept an alternative view: pragmatism |
| Units of selection | Accept: genes |
| Vagueness | Accept: semantic |
| Values in science | Accept: necessarily value-laden |
| Well-being | Accept an alternative view: Pragmatist |
| Wittgenstein | Accept: late |
| Zombies | Accept: inconceivable |