Matthew T. Flummer

Porterville College

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: impermissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: permissible
Causation Agnostic/undecided
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards empiricism
  • Lean towards nativism
Consciousness Accept: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Agnostic/undecided
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: design
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: formalism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: unreal
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Accept: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Lean towards: ought
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: qualia theory
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept: libertarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Lean towards: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: preserve
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Agnostic/undecided
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: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Agnostic/undecided
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Agnostic/undecided
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible