My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
  • Neutral towards goodness/justice
  • Neutral towards wisdom
  • Neutral towards happiness
  • Accept understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Agnostic/undecided
Arguments for theism Lean towards: pragmatic
Belief or credence Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
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 Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept classical
  • Accept non-classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards contextual/historicist
  • Neutral towards analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Agnostic/undecided
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: constructivism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Agnostic/undecided
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
  • Accept conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards capitalism
  • Lean towards socialism
Possible worlds Agnostic/undecided
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Agnostic/undecided
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Lean towards: classes
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: many-worlds
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Agnostic/undecided
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Agnostic/undecided
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Truth Lean towards: epistemic
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Accept: can be either
Wittgenstein Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept early
  • Accept late
Zombies There is no fact of the matter