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Nathan Eckstrand

Sam Houston State University
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Duquesne University
Department of Philosophy
PhD
Huntsville, Texas, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy
20th Century Philosophy
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept wisdom
  • Neutral towards happiness
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Neutral towards understanding
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: indeterminate
Eating animals and animal products Accept an alternative view: Reject factory farming; require holistic, caring, and sustainable treatment
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against unreal
  • Lean towards biological
  • Accept social
  • Accept psychological
God Accept an alternative view: I personally am atheist but do accept that beliefs in god(s) can be legitimately held
Knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards rationalism
  • Lean towards empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards internalism
  • Lean towards externalism
Meta-ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards moral anti-realism
  • Accept moral realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards deontology
  • Accept virtue ethics
  • Lean towards consequentialism
  • Lean towards care ethics
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject none
  • Lean towards a little
  • Accept a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards speculative philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against a lot
  • Lean towards a little
  • Lean towards none
Plato Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Accept: communitarianism
Practical reason Agnostic/undecided
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept switch
  • Lean towards don't switch
  • Accept work in advance to ensure such choices aren't necessary
True contradictions Agnostic/undecided
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Vagueness Accept: metaphysical
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible