My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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A priori knowledge | Accept: yes |
Abortion | Accept: permissible |
Abstract objects | Accept an alternative view: constructivism |
Aesthetic experience |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Aesthetic value |
Accept a combination of answers:
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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:
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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:
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Immortality | Accept an alternative view: Yes, if mostly pleasant |
Interlevel metaphysics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Justification |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Kant | There is no fact of the matter |
Knowledge | The question is too unclear to answer |
Knowledge claims |
Accept a combination of answers:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Vagueness |
Accept a combination of answers:
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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 |