My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: constructivism
Aesthetic experience Accept: sui generis
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Lean towards: pragmatic
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: primitive
Chinese room Accept an alternative view: Not possible
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Accept an alternative view: non-reductive physicalism
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 Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept an alternative view: experimentalism/pragmatism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics There is no fact of the matter
Free will Accept: libertarianism
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: primitive
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics There is no fact of the matter
Justification Accept an alternative view: pragmatism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Accept an alternative view: pragmatism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Humean
  • Lean towards non-Humean
  • Accept Pragmatism
Logic There is no fact of the matter
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Lean towards: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards analytic/rational reconstruction
  • Lean towards contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards non-ideal theory
  • Lean towards ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards constructivism
  • Reject non-naturalism
  • Reject expressivism
  • Reject error theory
  • Lean towards naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: pluralism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Accept worms
  • Lean towards plants
  • Lean against particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
  • Lean towards amoeba
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: disjunctivism
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean against formal philosophy
  • Reject experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept practice-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject libertarianism
  • Lean towards communitarianism
  • Lean towards egalitarianism
  • Lean towards participative democracy
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Agnostic/undecided
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names There is no fact of the matter
Properties Lean towards: tropes
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Lean towards: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics Accept: epistemic
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Accept: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: presentism
Theory of reference There is no fact of the matter
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: actual
Truth Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject correspondence
  • Lean towards deflationary
  • Lean towards epistemic
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Accept: metaphysical
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible