My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Accept: pleasure
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Accept: process/production
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts The question is too unclear to answer
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards internalism
  • Lean towards externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: structuralism
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept: biological
Gender categories Accept: preserve
God Lean towards: theism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: primitive
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hume Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept skeptic
  • Accept naturalist
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: grounding
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Material composition Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content The question is too unclear to answer
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles The question is too unclear to answer
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Reject fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject formal philosophy
  • Reject experimental philosophy
  • Reject conceptual engineering
  • Reject linguistic philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Reject empirical philosophy
  • Reject conceptual analysis
  • Accept metaphysics
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Accept: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Accept: communitarianism
Politics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against socialism
  • Lean towards capitalism
Possible worlds The question is too unclear to answer
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Lean towards: tropes
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Accept an alternative view: types of mental states
Quantum mechanics The question is too unclear to answer
Race Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: dogmatist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content The question is too unclear to answer
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump The question is too unclear to answer
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Agnostic/undecided
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Accept: metaphysical
Values in science Agnostic/undecided
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies The question is too unclear to answer