West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics
Applied Ethics
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics
Applied Ethics

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Lean towards: impermissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: pleasure
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: happiness
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject ontological
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject design
  • Reject moral
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Lean towards: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Agnostic/undecided
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Agnostic/undecided
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Accept: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Agnostic/undecided
Justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Kant Accept: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Agnostic/undecided
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading There is no fact of the matter
Moral judgment Agnostic/undecided
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles The question is too unclear to answer
Morality Agnostic/undecided
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards deontology
  • Lean towards virtue ethics
  • Neutral towards consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Agnostic/undecided
Personal identity Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical progress The question is too unclear to answer
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Agnostic/undecided
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Agnostic/undecided
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Accept: biological
Race categories Lean towards: preserve
Rational disagreement Agnostic/undecided
Response to external-world skepticism Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Accept: relationism
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology Agnostic/undecided
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions There is no fact of the matter
Truth Agnostic/undecided
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Values in science Agnostic/undecided
Well-being Accept: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible