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Michael Weisberg

University of Pennsylvania
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Stanford University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2003
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology
General Philosophy of Science
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Philosophy of Social Science
Philosophy of Physical Science
General Philosophy of Science
17th/18th Century Philosophy
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Causation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept counterfactual/difference-making
  • Lean against primitive
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Accept process/production
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject omnivorism (yes and yes)
  • Accept vegetarianism (no and yes)
  • Lean towards veganism (no and no)
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
God Accept: atheism
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: identity
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards non-classical
  • Accept classical
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Perceptual experience Agnostic/undecided
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Race Accept: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Science Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible