My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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 |