My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Accept: neither
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Lean towards: primitive
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept an alternative view: Permissible regarding some animals but not others.
Environmental ethics Agnostic/undecided
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Agnostic/undecided
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept psychological
  • Accept social
  • Reject unreal
  • Accept biological
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Agnostic/undecided
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Agnostic/undecided
Immortality Agnostic/undecided
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Agnostic/undecided
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Accept an alternative view: Deflationist realism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards non-naturalism
  • Lean towards naturalist realism
  • Lean against constructivism
  • Reject error theory
  • Reject expressivism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Agnostic/undecided
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Agnostic/undecided
Political philosophy Accept: libertarianism
Politics Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds Agnostic/undecided
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Lean towards immanent universals
  • Lean towards tropes
  • Reject transcendent universals
  • Reject classes
  • Lean towards Deflationist realism
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept biological
  • Accept social
  • Lean against unreal
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Agnostic/undecided
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept an alternative view: Pluralism
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible