My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Agnostic/undecided
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept internalism
  • Accept externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
God Accept: atheism
Knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empiricism
  • Accept rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Meaning of life Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories The question is too unclear to answer
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Science Agnostic/undecided
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-half
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards semantic
  • Lean against metaphysical
  • Lean towards epistemic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible