My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: pleasure
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept happiness
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment The question is too unclear to answer
Causation Lean towards: primitive
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics The question is too unclear to answer
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: yes
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: structuralism
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender The question is too unclear to answer
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Agnostic/undecided
Justification Agnostic/undecided
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Accept: universalism
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Agnostic/undecided
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience The question is too unclear to answer
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Accept an alternative view: utilitarianism
Politics The question is too unclear to answer
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Lean towards: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept dispositional
  • Neutral towards phenomenal
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Lean towards representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Lean towards: biological
Race categories The question is too unclear to answer
Rational disagreement Agnostic/undecided
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: contextualist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference The question is too unclear to answer
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-free
Well-being Accept: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible