Syracuse University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics
Philosophy of Law

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Neutral towards goodness/justice
  • Neutral towards wisdom
  • Accept understanding
  • Reject happiness
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject moral
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject design
  • Reject ontological
  • Reject cosmological
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: primitive
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Agnostic/undecided
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 Insufficiently familiar with the issue
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: libertarianism
Gender Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Gender categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept non-ideal theory
  • Accept ideal theory
Mind Agnostic/undecided
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: Particularism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Agnostic/undecided
Race categories Agnostic/undecided
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: dogmatist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Agnostic/undecided
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-free
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Zombies Insufficiently familiar with the issue