profile picture

Mark LeBar

Florida State University
 More details
University of Arizona
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1999
Homepage
Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics
Meta-Ethics
Value Theory
Social and Political Philosophy
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Areas of Interest
Value Theory
History of Western Philosophy

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion The question is too unclear to answer
Abstract objects Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic experience Skipped
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept understanding
  • Lean against goodness/justice
  • Accept wisdom
  • Lean towards happiness
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Skipped
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards moral
  • Accept Historical
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Continuum hypothesis Skipped
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards externalism
  • Lean towards internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge There is no fact of the matter
Foundations of mathematics Skipped
Free will Agnostic/undecided
Gender Lean towards: biological
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: inferential
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Skipped
Justification Agnostic/undecided
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law The question is too unclear to answer
Laws of nature The question is too unclear to answer
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Skipped
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content The question is too unclear to answer
Meta-ethics The question is too unclear to answer
Metaontology Skipped
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Mind The question is too unclear to answer
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation The question is too unclear to answer
Moral principles Accept: moral particularism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject error theory
  • Reject naturalist realism
  • Accept constructivism
  • Accept non-naturalism
  • Lean towards expressivism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject ought
  • Reject value
  • Lean towards fit
  • Lean towards reasons
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject consequentialism
  • Accept virtue ethics
  • Accept deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean against fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards disjunctivism
  • Reject sense-datum theory
  • Lean towards representationalism
  • Lean towards qualia theory
Personal identity Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: libertarianism
Politics Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Skipped
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards biological
  • Lean towards social
  • Reject unreal
Race categories Skipped
Rational disagreement Skipped
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: pragmatic
Science The question is too unclear to answer
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Skipped
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem There is no fact of the matter
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Skipped
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept an alternative view: Eudaimonism
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Insufficiently familiar with the issue