My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Accept: yes |
| Abortion | Accept: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Agnostic/undecided |
| Aesthetic experience | Accept: sui generis |
| Aesthetic value | Accept: objective |
| Aim of philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: justified true belief |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Lean towards: yes |
| Arguments for theism | Accept: design |
| Belief or credence | Agnostic/undecided |
| Capital punishment | Lean towards: impermissible |
| Causation | Accept an alternative view: grounded in dispositions (as with what we take to be laws of nature) |
| Chinese room | Accept: doesn't understand |
| Concepts | Agnostic/undecided |
| Consciousness |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Continuum hypothesis | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Accept an alternative view: principle of divine creativity that is not a separate God |
| Eating animals and animal products | Accept: veganism (no and no) |
| Environmental ethics | Accept: non-anthropocentric |
| Epistemic justification | Agnostic/undecided |
| Experience machine | Accept: no |
| Extended mind | Lean towards: no |
| External world | Accept: idealism |
| Footbridge | Accept: don't push |
| Foundations of mathematics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Free will | Accept an alternative view: Agent FW an illusion but genuine freedom in consciousness |
| Gender |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Gender categories | The question is too unclear to answer |
| God | Accept an alternative view: God as divine consciousness rather than a conscious creator |
| Grounds of intentionality | Accept: phenomenal |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: yes |
| Human genetic engineering | Accept: permissible |
| Hume | Lean towards: skeptic |
| Immortality | Accept an alternative view: no essential self to live forever, but go for rebirth and the possibility of nibbana. |
| Interlevel metaphysics |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Justification | Agnostic/undecided |
| Kant | Lean towards: two worlds |
| Knowledge | Lean towards: empiricism |
| Knowledge claims | Agnostic/undecided |
| Law | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Laws of nature | Accept an alternative view: Dispositions ground what we take to be L of N |
| Logic |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Material composition | Agnostic/undecided |
| Meaning of life | Accept: objective |
| Mental content | Accept an alternative view: still to figure this out on idealist metaphysics |
| Meta-ethics | Lean towards: moral realism |
| Metaontology | Agnostic/undecided |
| Metaphilosophy | Agnostic/undecided |
| Method in history of philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Method in political philosophy | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Mind | Accept: non-physicalism |
| Mind uploading | Lean towards: death |
| Moral judgment | Lean towards: cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Agnostic/undecided |
| Moral principles | Lean towards: moral particularism |
| Morality | Accept an alternative view: the source of goodness and happiness lies within our nature |
| Newcomb's problem | Agnostic/undecided |
| Normative concepts | Agnostic/undecided |
| Normative ethics |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Ought implies can | Lean towards: yes |
| Perceptual experience | Agnostic/undecided |
| Personal identity | Lean towards: psychological view |
| Philosophical knowledge | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Lean towards: a lot |
| Plato | Agnostic/undecided |
| Political philosophy | Agnostic/undecided |
| Politics | Accept an alternative view: elements of both e.g. universal income but people can still make profits |
| Possible worlds | Accept: nonexistent |
| Practical reason | Lean towards: Aristotelian |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Lean towards: true |
| Proper names | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Properties | Lean towards: tropes |
| Propositional attitudes | Lean towards: phenomenal |
| Propositions | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Quantum mechanics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Race | Lean towards: biological |
| Race categories | Lean towards: preserve |
| Rational disagreement | Lean towards: permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Accept: pragmatic |
| Science | Agnostic/undecided |
| Semantic content | Agnostic/undecided |
| Sleeping beauty | Agnostic/undecided |
| Spacetime | Accept an alternative view: I don't think it is ultimately real (consciousness is) so... |
| Statue and lump | Agnostic/undecided |
| Teletransporter |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Temporal ontology |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Theory of reference | Agnostic/undecided |
| Time | Accept an alternative view: passing time an illusion, timeless ever-present consciousness real |
| Time travel | Lean towards: metaphysically impossible |
| Trolley problem | Accept: switch |
| True contradictions | Lean towards: actual |
| Truth | Agnostic/undecided |
| Units of selection | Lean towards: genes |
| Vagueness | Agnostic/undecided |
| Values in science | Agnostic/undecided |
| Well-being | Accept an alternative view: Buddhist compassion-based ethics |
| Wittgenstein |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Zombies | Lean towards: inconceivable |