My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: pleasure
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject ontological
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject moral
  • Reject design
Belief or credence Accept: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Agnostic/undecided
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: libertarianism
Gender Lean towards: biological
Gender categories Accept: preserve
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept an alternative view: Dispositional
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Agnostic/undecided
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: supervenience
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Kant The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept rationalism
  • Accept empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept internalism
  • Accept externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept: error theory
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Accept: ought
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean against fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Reject conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Reject empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept: libertarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Accept: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Accept: sets
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: unreal
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: epistemic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept causal
  • Accept descriptive
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Accept an alternative view: It is an empirical question, not a philosophical question.