My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept an alternative view: darwinian pragmatist
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept happiness
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept an alternative view: pragmatist -- i dont see a hardline division -- depends on the circumstances and what works
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Experience machine Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept an alternative view: kantian/pragmatist -- dont like the ding an sich, but i would not say i am an out and out idealist like berkeley -- cannot solve the problem and not that bothered
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: biological
God Accept an alternative view: firmly agnostic -- with a Kierkegaardian odor -- i dont diss faith, just dont have it
Knowledge Accept an alternative view: i am a Kantian/Darwinian/pragmatist -- you tell me what i am
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Agnostic/undecided
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Mind Accept an alternative view: i am a panpsychic monist so you tell me what i am
Mind uploading Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Morality Accept an alternative view: moral nonrealism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept virtue ethics
  • Accept consequentialism
  • Accept deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean against fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Neutral towards particles
  • Lean against newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Perceptual experience Accept an alternative view: pragmatist
Personal identity Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Accept history of ideas
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards libertarianism
  • Lean towards communitarianism
  • Lean towards egalitarianism
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept social
  • Accept biological
Science Accept an alternative view: i am neo-kantian -- the world is real but we interpret it, especially through metapphorsu
Teletransporter Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Other
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Accept an alternative view: i am a Kantian/Darwinian/pragmatist -- you tell me what i am
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept genes
  • Accept organisms
Vagueness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Zombies Accept an alternative view: totally uninterested