My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Accept: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept happiness
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: ontological
Belief or credence Agnostic/undecided
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject identity theory
  • Lean towards functionalism
  • Neutral towards panpsychism
  • Lean against eliminativism
  • Reject dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Other
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Agnostic/undecided
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Skipped
Gender categories Other
God The question is too unclear to answer
Grounds of intentionality Accept: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards identity
  • Accept realization
  • Neutral towards grounding
  • Accept supervenience
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Kant Accept: one world
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Agnostic/undecided
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Other
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Agnostic/undecided
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards deontology
  • Lean towards virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Other minds: adult humans
  • Accept Other minds: cats
  • Lean towards Other minds: fish
  • Lean against Other minds: flies
  • Lean against Other minds: worms
  • Lean against Other minds: plants
  • Neutral towards Other minds: particles
  • Accept Other minds: newborn babies
  • Reject Other minds: current AI systems
  • Lean towards Other minds: future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: disjunctivism
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Skipped
Politics The question is too unclear to answer
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Accept: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Skipped
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Skipped
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards abductive
  • Lean towards semantic externalist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Lean towards: one-third
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Lean towards: growing block
Theory of reference Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept causal
  • Accept descriptive
  • Accept deflationary
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
True contradictions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept genes
  • Accept organisms
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept epistemic
  • Accept semantic
  • Accept metaphysical
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Other
Wittgenstein Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept early
  • Accept late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible