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Markos Valaris

University of New South Wales
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University of Pittsburgh
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2008
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology
Philosophy of Mind
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Action
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Probability
Metaphysics and Epistemology
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Reject happiness
  • Lean towards goodness/justice
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept understanding
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: cosmological
Belief or credence Accept: belief
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards panpsychism
  • Lean against identity theory
  • Lean towards functionalism
  • Lean against dualism
  • Reject eliminativism
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification The question is too unclear to answer
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Free will Agnostic/undecided
Gender Agnostic/undecided
God Accept: atheism
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Accept: one world
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic The question is too unclear to answer
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation The question is too unclear to answer
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative ethics Other
Perceptual experience Accept: disjunctivism
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress The question is too unclear to answer
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Lean towards: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept phenomenal
  • Accept dispositional
  • Lean against representational
  • Reject nonexistent
Race Accept: social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards epistemic externalist
  • Lean against abductive
  • Lean towards semantic externalist
  • Lean against contextualist
  • Lean against pragmatic
  • Lean towards dogmatist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: presentism
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Accept: correspondence
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Zombies Agnostic/undecided