My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic experience Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic value Agnostic/undecided
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept understanding
  • Reject happiness
  • Lean against wisdom
  • Lean towards goodness/justice
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: ontological
Belief or credence Agnostic/undecided
Capital punishment Skipped
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards nativism
  • Neutral towards empiricism
Consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Accept: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: structuralism
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject biological
  • Lean towards social
  • Lean towards psychological
  • Neutral towards unreal
Gender categories Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards eliminate
  • Lean against preserve
  • Accept revise
God Agnostic/undecided
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Other
Hume Other
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Skipped
Kant Other
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life Skipped
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Skipped
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards constructivism
  • Neutral towards expressivism
  • Lean towards non-naturalism
  • Lean against naturalist realism
  • Reject error theory
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Lean towards: ought
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Other minds The question is too unclear to answer
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience Skipped
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept a little
  • Lean towards a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept a little
  • Lean towards a lot
Plato Other
Political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Properties Skipped
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Skipped
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against biological
  • Lean towards social
  • Neutral towards unreal
Race categories Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against preserve
  • Accept eliminate
  • Lean towards revise
Rational disagreement The question is too unclear to answer
Science Lean towards: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Skipped
Spacetime Skipped
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
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 Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards actual
  • Accept possible but non-actual
  • Reject impossible
Truth Accept: deflationary
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards metaphysical
  • Lean towards epistemic
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against desire satisfaction
  • Lean towards hedonism/experientialism
  • Accept objective list
Wittgenstein There is no fact of the matter
Zombies Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject inconceivable
  • Lean against conceivable but not metaphysically possible
  • Lean towards metaphysically possible