My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Arguments for theism Lean towards: cosmological
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject skepticism
  • Lean towards idealism
  • Lean towards non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: psychological
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Accept: atheism
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Kant The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Agnostic/undecided
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meta-ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral judgment Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Morality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards consequentialism
  • Lean towards virtue ethics
  • Accept deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean against cats
  • Lean against fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Reject newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Lean against formal philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject libertarianism
  • Lean towards egalitarianism
  • Lean towards communitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: concrete
Practical reason Accept: Kantian
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Response to external-world skepticism Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: growing block
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Lean towards: epistemic
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Values in science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being The question is too unclear to answer
Wittgenstein Agnostic/undecided
Zombies Accept an alternative view: conceivable and metaphysically possible