My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: 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 Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: cosmological
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Accept: permissible
Causation Lean towards: primitive
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics The question is too unclear to answer
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: biological
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics The question is too unclear to answer
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Accept: universalism
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Accept: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Lean towards: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: hidden-variables
Race Accept: biological
Race categories Lean towards: preserve
Rational disagreement Accept: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: dogmatist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: minimalism (no more than a few)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: don't switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Accept: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible