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Marshall Thompson

Florida State University
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Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics
Action Theory
Areas of Interest
Practical Reason
Philosophy of Religion

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: impermissible
Abstract objects Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Agnostic/undecided
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards goodness/justice
  • Reject happiness
  • Lean towards wisdom
  • Lean towards understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Other
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Agnostic/undecided
Chinese room Agnostic/undecided
Concepts The question is too unclear to answer
Consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards multiverse
  • Lean towards design
  • Reject brute fact
  • Lean towards no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender The question is too unclear to answer
Gender categories The question is too unclear to answer
God Lean towards: theism
Grounds of intentionality The question is too unclear to answer
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept naturalist
  • Accept skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Agnostic/undecided
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Agnostic/undecided
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation The question is too unclear to answer
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against non-naturalism
  • Lean towards constructivism
  • Reject error theory
  • Lean towards naturalist realism
  • Reject expressivism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts The question is too unclear to answer
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 towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Neutral towards newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: disjunctivism
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress The question is too unclear to answer
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Politics Other
Possible worlds Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Practical reason Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Aristotelian
  • Reject Humean
  • Lean towards Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Agnostic/undecided
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Agnostic/undecided
Propositions Agnostic/undecided
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: many-worlds
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: dogmatist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Agnostic/undecided
Sleeping beauty Lean towards: one-third
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump The question is too unclear to answer
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Agnostic/undecided
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Agnostic/undecided
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Agnostic/undecided
Units of selection Agnostic/undecided
Vagueness Agnostic/undecided
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: inconceivable