My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Neutral towards happiness
  • Neutral towards wisdom
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept goodness/justice
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept an alternative view: Yes, but analyticities not 'insubstantial' or 'linguistic'
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Consciousness Accept an alternative view: Supervenience physicalism
Eating animals and animal products Agnostic/undecided
Environmental ethics Agnostic/undecided
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Lean towards: libertarianism
Gender Lean towards: social
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Laws of nature Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Logic Lean towards: classical
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Newcomb's problem Skipped
Normative ethics Agnostic/undecided
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: qualia theory
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Reject linguistic philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Agnostic/undecided
Race Lean towards: social
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: minimalism (no more than a few)
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Agnostic/undecided
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Accept: can be either
Wittgenstein Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Wittgenstein: early
  • Reject Wittgenstein: late
Zombies Agnostic/undecided