My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value Agnostic/undecided
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards understanding
  • Accept wisdom
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards happiness
  • Accept goodness/justice
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Accept: cosmological
Eating animals and animal products Accept: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject biological
  • Neutral towards unreal
  • Lean towards psychological
  • Lean towards social
God Accept: atheism
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against deontology
  • Lean towards virtue ethics
  • Lean towards consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Race Lean towards: unreal
Science Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Accept an alternative view: Multiple Levels
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards epistemic
  • Lean towards metaphysical
  • Lean against semantic
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible