My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Causation Accept: counterfactual/difference-making
Eating animals and animal products Accept: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Accept: yes
External world Accept: skepticism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Agnostic/undecided
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Accept: biological
God Accept: atheism
Hard problem of consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Hume Accept: skeptic
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Agnostic/undecided
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment The question is too unclear to answer
Moral motivation The question is too unclear to answer
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Perceptual experience Agnostic/undecided
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept: libertarianism
Proper names Accept: Millian
Propositions Skipped
Race Accept: social
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: contextualist
Science Accept: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter Accept: death
Time Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Accept: correspondence
Vagueness Accept: metaphysical
Values in science Agnostic/undecided
Wittgenstein Accept: early
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible