My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject design
  • Reject moral
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject ontological
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards logicism
  • Lean towards constructivism/intuitionism
  • Neutral towards set-theoretic
  • Neutral towards structuralism
  • Lean towards formalism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories The question is too unclear to answer
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: interpretational
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: realization
Justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards reliabilism
  • Lean against nonreliabilist foundationalism
  • Lean towards coherentism
  • Neutral towards infinitism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Lean towards: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept contextual/historicist
  • Accept analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept non-ideal theory
  • Accept ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept: constructivism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Lean towards: ought
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Reject fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean against newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Neutral 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 linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject libertarianism
  • Lean towards egalitarianism
  • Neutral towards communitarianism
Politics Accept an alternative view: social democracy
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Accept an alternative view: family resemblence
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: collapse
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards abductive
  • Lean towards pragmatic
  • Lean against dogmatist
  • Lean towards contextualist
  • Lean towards semantic externalist
  • Lean towards epistemic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology Lean towards: growing block
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Accept: deflationary
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Accept: inconceivable