My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Lean towards: yes |
| Abortion | Accept: impermissible |
| Abstract objects | Lean towards: Platonism |
| Aesthetic experience | Lean towards: sui generis |
| Aesthetic value | Accept: objective |
| Aim of philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: other analysis |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Agnostic/undecided |
| Arguments for theism |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Belief or credence | Skipped |
| Capital punishment | Skipped |
| Causation | Lean towards: process/production |
| Chinese room | Lean towards: doesn't understand |
| Concepts | Accept an alternative view: Abstraction from sense perceptions |
| Consciousness | Accept an alternative view: An Aristotelian hylomorphism (perceptual experience itself is hylomorphic) |
| Continuum hypothesis | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Lean towards: design |
| Eating animals and animal products | Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes) |
| Environmental ethics | Lean towards: non-anthropocentric |
| Epistemic justification | Lean towards: externalism |
| Experience machine | Accept: no |
| Extended mind | Lean towards: yes |
| External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Accept: don't push |
| Foundations of mathematics | Agnostic/undecided |
| Free will | Accept: libertarianism |
| Gender |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Gender categories |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| God | Accept: theism |
| Grounds of intentionality |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Hard problem of consciousness | Skipped |
| Human genetic engineering | Accept an alternative view: It depends on the type, method, and circumstances of the engineering. |
| Hume | Lean towards: skeptic |
| Immortality | Accept: yes |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Lean towards: grounding |
| Justification | Skipped |
| Kant | Lean towards: one world |
| Knowledge | Accept an alternative view: Phenomenological realism |
| Knowledge claims | Lean towards: invariantism |
| Law | Accept: legal non-positivism |
| Laws of nature | Accept: non-Humean |
| Logic | Lean towards: classical |
| Material composition | Lean towards: restrictivism |
| Meaning of life | Accept: objective |
| Mental content | Lean towards: internalism |
| Meta-ethics | Accept: moral realism |
| Metaontology | Accept: heavyweight realism |
| Metaphilosophy | Accept: non-naturalism |
| Method in history of philosophy | Lean towards: contextual/historicist |
| Method in political philosophy | Skipped |
| Mind | Accept: non-physicalism |
| Mind uploading | Accept an alternative view: Depends on the way in which uploading occurs. |
| Moral judgment | Accept: cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Lean towards: externalism |
| Moral principles |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Morality | Accept: non-naturalism |
| Newcomb's problem | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Normative concepts | Lean towards: value |
| Normative ethics |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Ought implies can | Skipped |
| Perceptual experience | Accept an alternative view: Participation theory |
| Personal identity | Accept: further-fact view |
| Philosophical knowledge | Accept: a lot |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Philosophical progress | Lean towards: a little |
| Plato | Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things |
| Political philosophy | Lean towards: communitarianism |
| Politics | Accept an alternative view: Personalism |
| Possible worlds | Lean towards: abstract |
| Practical reason |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Principle of sufficient reason | Lean towards: true |
| Proper names | Lean towards: Fregean |
| Properties |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Propositional attitudes | Lean towards: dispositional |
| Propositions | Lean towards: acts |
| Quantum mechanics | Lean towards: collapse |
| Race |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Race categories |
Accept a combination of answers:
|
| Rational disagreement | Lean towards: permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Lean towards: epistemic externalist |
| Science | Lean towards: scientific realism |
| Semantic content | Skipped |
| Sleeping beauty | Skipped |
| Spacetime | Lean towards: relationism |
| Statue and lump | Accept an alternative view: 'Thing' is said in multiple senses; in one sense, there's one thing; in another sense, there's two |
| Teletransporter | Accept an alternative view: Depends on the causal mechanism involved in the teletransporter |
| Temporal ontology | Agnostic/undecided |
| Theory of reference | Lean towards: causal |
| Time | Lean towards: A-theory |
| Time travel | Lean towards: metaphysically impossible |
| Trolley problem | Accept: don't switch |
| True contradictions | Accept: impossible |
| Truth | Lean towards: correspondence |
| Units of selection | Lean towards: organisms |
| Vagueness | Lean towards: metaphysical |
| Values in science | Accept: necessarily value-laden |
| Well-being | Lean towards: objective list |
| Wittgenstein | Accept: late |
| Zombies | Lean towards: inconceivable |