My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: constructivism
Aesthetic experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept pleasure
  • Reject sui generis
  • Accept perception
Aesthetic value Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept subjective
  • Accept objective
Aim of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Accept an alternative view: In some contexts process, some counter-factual, and in some a matter of determining responsibility
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards nativism
  • Lean towards empiricism
Consciousness Accept an alternative view: Biological property
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Agnostic/undecided
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification There is no fact of the matter
Experience machine Accept an alternative view: Enter for periods of time, not forever
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept an alternative view: Constructivism but not in the way mathematicians use the term
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender There is no fact of the matter
Gender categories Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality Accept an alternative view: Biological for nonhuman animals, biological and social for humans
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept naturalist
  • Lean towards skeptic
Immortality Accept an alternative view: Yes, if mostly pleasant
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards coherentism
  • Reject infinitism
  • Lean against nonreliabilist foundationalism
  • Accept reliabilism
Kant There is no fact of the matter
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject invariantism
  • Accept relativism
  • Accept contextualism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic There is no fact of the matter
Material composition Accept: universalism
Meaning of life Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Accept objective
  • Accept subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Mind Accept an alternative view: Property dualism/substance monism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts There is no fact of the matter
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: Modified rule utilitarianism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can The question is too unclear to answer
Perceptual experience Accept an alternative view: Experiences are mostly external events
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato There is no fact of the matter
Political philosophy Accept an alternative view: Localized rule utilitarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept immanent universals
  • Reject classes
  • Accept transcendent universals
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Accept tropes
Propositional attitudes Accept: dispositional
Propositions Accept: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Accept an alternative view: Superdeterminism
Race Accept: social
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: dogmatist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-third
Spacetime Accept: substantivalism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject deflationary
  • Lean against causal
  • Reject descriptive
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept organisms
  • Accept genes
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept epistemic
  • Accept metaphysical
  • Accept semantic
Values in science There is no fact of the matter
Well-being Accept an alternative view: Informed rational choice of the good life
Wittgenstein There is no fact of the matter
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible