My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Skipped
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Agnostic/undecided
Belief or credence Skipped
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empiricism
  • Accept nativism
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: yes
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: biological
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: realization
Justification Agnostic/undecided
Kant Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empiricism
  • Accept rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Skipped
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Skipped
Method in political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Agnostic/undecided
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Reject cats
  • Reject fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Neutral towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Agnostic/undecided
Plato Skipped
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Skipped
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Lean towards: classes
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Skipped
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: epistemic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Skipped
Spacetime Skipped
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Agnostic/undecided
Temporal ontology Skipped
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Skipped
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Skipped
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Accept: organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Skipped
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible