My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Lean towards: cosmological
Belief or credence Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: understands
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification There is no fact of the matter
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept an alternative view: Compatibilism and no free will are not contraries. They are both true - there is no free will, but determinism is no threat to free will.
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality The question is too unclear to answer
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: survival
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Reject linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Accept formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names There is no fact of the matter
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Accept: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: dogmatist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Accept an alternative view: Multi level - genes, organisms, groups, perhaps higher and lower levels beyond these..
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: inconceivable