My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Accept: yes |
| Abortion | Accept: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Lean towards: Platonism |
| Aesthetic experience | Lean towards: pleasure |
| Aesthetic value | Accept: subjective |
| Aim of philosophy | Accept: truth/knowledge |
| Analysis of knowledge | Accept: no analysis |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Accept: yes |
| Arguments for theism | Agnostic/undecided |
| Belief or credence | Accept: belief |
| Capital punishment | Lean towards: permissible |
| Causation |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Chinese room | Accept: doesn't understand |
| Concepts | Accept: nativism |
| Consciousness | Lean towards: dualism |
| Continuum hypothesis | Accept: indeterminate |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Accept: brute fact |
| Eating animals and animal products | Accept: vegetarianism (no and yes) |
| Environmental ethics | Lean towards: anthropocentric |
| Epistemic justification | Accept: internalism |
| Experience machine | Accept: no |
| Extended mind | Accept: no |
| External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Accept: don't push |
| Foundations of mathematics | Lean towards: set-theoretic |
| Free will | Lean towards: no free will |
| Gender | Lean towards: psychological |
| Gender categories | Lean towards: revise |
| God | Accept: atheism |
| Grounds of intentionality | Lean towards: primitive |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: yes |
| Human genetic engineering | Accept: permissible |
| Hume | Accept: skeptic |
| Immortality | Accept: yes |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Accept: identity |
| Justification | Agnostic/undecided |
| Kant | Accept: two worlds |
| Knowledge | Accept: empiricism |
| Knowledge claims | Accept: invariantism |
| Law | Accept: legal positivism |
| Laws of nature | Accept: non-Humean |
| Logic | Accept: non-classical |
| Material composition | Accept: restrictivism |
| Meaning of life | Accept: nonexistent |
| Mental content | Accept: externalism |
| Meta-ethics | Lean towards: moral realism |
| Metaontology | Accept: heavyweight realism |
| Metaphilosophy | Accept: naturalism |
| Method in history of philosophy | Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction |
| Method in political philosophy | Accept: ideal theory |
| Mind | Accept: non-physicalism |
| Mind uploading | Accept: death |
| Moral judgment | Accept: cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Accept: externalism |
| Moral principles | Lean towards: moral particularism |
| Morality | Lean towards: naturalist realism |
| Newcomb's problem | Accept: two boxes |
| Normative concepts | Accept: value |
| Normative ethics | Accept: consequentialism |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Ought implies can | Accept: no |
| Perceptual experience | Accept: representationalism |
| Personal identity | There is no fact of the matter |
| Philosophical knowledge | Accept: a lot |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Accept: a lot |
| Plato | Accept: knowledge also of concrete things |
| Political philosophy | Lean towards: egalitarianism |
| Politics | Accept: socialism |
| Possible worlds | Lean towards: abstract |
| Practical reason | Accept: Humean |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Accept: false |
| Proper names | Lean towards: Fregean |
| Properties |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Propositional attitudes | Accept: dispositional |
| Propositions | Accept: structured entities |
| Quantum mechanics | Lean towards: hidden-variables |
| Race | Accept: unreal |
| Race categories | Accept: eliminate |
| Rational disagreement | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Accept: dogmatist |
| Science | Accept: scientific realism |
| Semantic content | Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate) |
| Sleeping beauty | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Spacetime | Lean towards: substantivalism |
| Statue and lump | Accept: two things |
| Teletransporter | Accept: death |
| Temporal ontology | Lean towards: eternalism |
| Theory of reference | Lean towards: causal |
| Time | Lean towards: A-theory |
| Time travel | Accept: metaphysically possible |
| Trolley problem | Accept: switch |
| True contradictions | Accept: impossible |
| Truth | Accept: correspondence |
| Units of selection |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Vagueness | Accept: semantic |
| Values in science | Accept: can be either |
| Well-being | Accept: desire satisfaction |
| Wittgenstein | Accept: early |
| Zombies | Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible |