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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| Propositional attitudes | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Propositions | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Quantum mechanics | Agnostic/undecided |
| Race |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| 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 |