My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: cosmological
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: primitive
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Lean towards: panpsychism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept externalism
  • Accept internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: structuralism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories The question is too unclear to answer
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards inferential
  • Lean towards phenomenal
  • Lean towards interpretational
  • Reject primitive
  • Lean towards causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept identity
  • Accept grounding
  • Lean against supervenience
  • Accept realization
Justification Agnostic/undecided
Kant Accept: two worlds
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept internalism
  • Accept externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept contextual/historicist
  • Accept analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: particularism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Lean against particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject sense-datum theory
  • Lean towards qualia theory
  • Reject disjunctivism
  • Lean towards representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Agnostic/undecided
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Accept: nonexistent
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Lean towards: sets
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: hidden-variables
Race Accept: social
Race categories The question is too unclear to answer
Rational disagreement Agnostic/undecided
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: epistemic externalist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: presentism
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-free
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject late
  • Reject early
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible