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:
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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:
|
| 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 |