My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Lean towards: pragmatic
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept an alternative view: Enter if machine is interactive; if not, then do not enter.
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: set-theoretic
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Agnostic/undecided
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept grounding
  • Accept identity
  • Accept supervenience
  • Accept realization
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept an alternative view: Both
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Lean towards: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept contextual/historicist
  • Accept analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Lean towards: ought
Normative ethics Agnostic/undecided
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Neutral towards plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: concrete
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Accept: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: many-worlds
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: semantic externalist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Lean towards: one-half
Spacetime Accept: substantivalism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Accept an alternative view: Sometimes death, sometimes survival - depends on further facts
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: actual
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Agnostic/undecided
Wittgenstein Accept: early
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible