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Mark Silcox

University of Central Oklahoma
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Ohio State University
Department of Philosophy
PhD
Homepage
Edmond, Oklahoma, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language
20th Century Philosophy
Aesthetics
Philosophy of Literature
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language
Aesthetics
Meta-Ethics
Normative Ethics
Social and Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Literature
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept an alternative view: Moralism
Aesthetic value The question is too unclear to answer
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards wisdom
  • Reject goodness/justice
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards understanding
  • Accept happiness
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept: nonexistent
Chinese room There is no fact of the matter
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification There is no fact of the matter
Experience machine Lean towards: yes
Extended mind There is no fact of the matter
External world There is no fact of the matter
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: set-theoretic
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: psychological
Gender categories Lean towards: eliminate
God Lean towards: theism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics There is no fact of the matter
Justification There is no fact of the matter
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics There is no fact of the matter
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Mind There is no fact of the matter
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment There is no fact of the matter
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject fit
  • Reject reasons
  • Lean towards ought
  • Lean towards value
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards consequentialism
  • Accept virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Neutral towards plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Accept an alternative view: Nihilism.
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Reject conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress The question is too unclear to answer
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept an alternative view: Socialism (good grief, y'all)
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Aristotelian
  • Reject Kantian
  • Lean towards Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names There is no fact of the matter
Properties Lean towards: classes
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against many-worlds
  • Lean against epistemic
  • Reject hidden-variables
  • Lean towards collapse
Race Accept: unreal
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Accept an alternative view: Relationism for space, substantivalism for time.
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology Lean towards: growing block
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject B-theory
  • Lean towards A-theory
  • Lean towards Growing Block
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: epistemic
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept: inconceivable