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Matt Duncan

Rhode Island College
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University of Virginia
Corcoran Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2015
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
Epistemology
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Epistemology
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Lean towards: impermissible
Abstract objects Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Agnostic/undecided
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept happiness
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept goodness/justice
Analysis of knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept an alternative view: Argument from religious experience
Belief or credence Agnostic/undecided
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Agnostic/undecided
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Agnostic/undecided
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject eliminativism
  • Reject identity theory
  • Neutral towards dualism
  • Reject panpsychism
  • Reject functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Agnostic/undecided
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: design
Eating animals and animal products Agnostic/undecided
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind The question is too unclear to answer
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Agnostic/undecided
Gender Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Gender categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Agnostic/undecided
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Agnostic/undecided
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Agnostic/undecided
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Agnostic/undecided
Morality Lean towards: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Other
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Agnostic/undecided
Perceptual experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards sense-datum theory
  • Lean against qualia theory
  • Lean towards representationalism
  • Reject disjunctivism
Personal identity Accept an alternative view: Phenomenological view (which I consider distinct from standard psychological views)
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Other
Philosophical progress Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept a little
  • Lean towards a lot
  • Reject none
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Agnostic/undecided
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Response to external-world skepticism Agnostic/undecided
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Agnostic/undecided
Theory of reference Agnostic/undecided
Time Agnostic/undecided
Time travel Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem Agnostic/undecided
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Agnostic/undecided
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Agnostic/undecided
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Wittgenstein Agnostic/undecided
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible