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Michael Schmitz

Central European UniversityUniversity of Vienna
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Universität Konstanz
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2005
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Vienna, Austria
0000-0002-3898-1276
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Action
Philosophy of Mind
Areas of Interest
Metaphilosophy
Philosophy of Language
Meta-Ethics
Social and Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Cognitive Science

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject nominalism
  • Reject Platonism
  • Lean towards Immanent realism of some kind
Aesthetic experience Accept: sui generis
Aesthetic value The question is too unclear to answer
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept happiness
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject moral
  • Reject design
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject ontological
Belief or credence Accept: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Consciousness Accept an alternative view: Pluralism
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: yes
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Accept an alternative view: Wittgenstein's view
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Accept an alternative view: Composition and supervenience
Kant Accept: two worlds
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept classical
  • Accept non-classical
Material composition Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject moral realism
  • Reject moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Mind Accept an alternative view: Reductive non-materialism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Morality Accept an alternative view: Prescriptivism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts The question is too unclear to answer
Normative ethics Agnostic/undecided
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept an alternative view: Intentional relationism
Personal identity The question is too unclear to answer
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Reject linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Political philosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Politics Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Proper names Accept an alternative view: A proper name makes its own contribution to intentional content that is not reducible to a description
Propositional attitudes Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept dispositional
  • Accept representational
  • Accept phenomenal
Propositions Accept: acts
Race Lean towards: biological
Race categories Accept: revise
Rational disagreement Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Response to external-world skepticism Accept an alternative view: Wittgenstein and earlier Schopenhauer had got this pretty much figured out
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-half
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Temporal ontology Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject growing block
  • Reject eternalism
  • Reject presentism
Time Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject B-theory
  • Reject A-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Accept an alternative view: The reference theory of truth: truth is successful reference to a state of affairs from a theoretical position towards the world
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible