My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards happiness
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Lean towards understanding
  • Accept wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Agnostic/undecided
Arguments for theism Skipped
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept an alternative view: Pluralism
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Accept an alternative view: Neutral monism
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 Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards non-skeptical realism
  • Lean towards idealism
  • Lean towards skepticism
  • Lean towards phenomenological position that points out issues with both idealism and 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 Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Agnostic/undecided
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Agnostic/undecided
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Agnostic/undecided
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Lean towards: nihilism
Meaning of life Accept an alternative view: Life's meaning is what you give it, but that does not make it merely subjective.
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading There is no fact of the matter
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: constructivism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards virtue ethics
  • Lean towards Moral particularism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Accept worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept an alternative view: phenomenalism
Personal identity Other
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: hidden-variables
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: contextualist
Science Lean towards: 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 Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology Lean towards: growing block
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Agnostic/undecided
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Agnostic/undecided
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible