My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: impermissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Accept: perception
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Accept: ontological
Belief or credence Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Lean towards: nonexistent
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept an alternative view: Scepticism: no one knows anything
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: biological
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Lean towards: theism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology There is no fact of the matter
Metaphilosophy There is no fact of the matter
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral particularism
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Other
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean against fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: disjunctivism
Personal identity Accept: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Reject formal philosophy
  • Reject linguistic philosophy
  • Reject conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: none
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: libertarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Lean towards: tropes
Propositional attitudes Accept: phenomenal
Propositions Accept: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: revise
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Accept: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content There is no fact of the matter
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference There is no fact of the matter
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
True contradictions Lean towards: possible but non-actual
Truth Lean towards: epistemic
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible