My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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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 |