My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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A priori knowledge | Lean towards: no |
Abortion | Accept: permissible |
Abstract objects | Lean towards: nominalism |
Aesthetic experience | Accept: sui generis |
Aesthetic value | Lean towards: objective |
Aim of philosophy | Accept an alternative view: Problem solving |
Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: no analysis |
Analytic-synthetic distinction | Lean towards: no |
Arguments for theism |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Belief or credence | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
Causation | Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making |
Chinese room | There is no fact of the matter |
Concepts | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Consciousness | Accept: identity theory |
Continuum hypothesis | Lean towards: indeterminate |
Cosmological fine-tuning | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Eating animals and animal products | Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes) |
Environmental ethics | Lean towards: non-anthropocentric |
Epistemic justification | There is no fact of the matter |
Experience machine | Lean towards: yes |
Extended mind | Accept: yes |
External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
Footbridge | There is no fact of the matter |
Foundations of mathematics | Lean towards: structuralism |
Free will | Accept: compatibilism |
Gender |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Gender categories | Lean towards: revise |
God | Accept: atheism |
Grounds of intentionality | Lean towards: primitive |
Hard problem of consciousness | Lean towards: no |
Human genetic engineering | Lean towards: permissible |
Hume | Lean towards: naturalist |
Immortality | Lean towards: no |
Interlevel metaphysics | Lean towards: supervenience |
Justification | Lean towards: coherentism |
Kant | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Knowledge | Lean towards: empiricism |
Knowledge claims | Accept: contextualism |
Law | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Laws of nature | Accept an alternative view: Explanatory frameworks |
Logic | Accept an alternative view: Pluralism |
Material composition | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Meaning of life | Accept: nonexistent |
Mental content | There is no fact of the matter |
Meta-ethics | Accept: moral realism |
Metaontology | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Metaphilosophy | Lean towards: naturalism |
Method in history of philosophy | Accept: contextual/historicist |
Method in political philosophy | Lean towards: non-ideal theory |
Mind | Accept: physicalism |
Mind uploading | Lean towards: death |
Moral judgment | Accept: cognitivism |
Moral motivation | Accept: internalism |
Moral principles | Accept: moral particularism |
Morality | Lean towards: constructivism |
Newcomb's problem | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Normative concepts | Accept an alternative view: Equally fundamental |
Normative ethics | Accept an alternative view: Particularism |
Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Ought implies can | Lean towards: no |
Perceptual experience | There is no fact of the matter |
Personal identity | Lean towards: psychological view |
Philosophical knowledge | Lean towards: a lot |
Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Philosophical progress | Accept: a lot |
Plato | There is no fact of the matter |
Political philosophy | Lean towards: egalitarianism |
Politics | Accept: socialism |
Possible worlds | Accept: abstract |
Practical reason | Agnostic/undecided |
Principle of sufficient reason | Lean towards: false |
Proper names | Accept an alternative view: No such thing as semantic content. |
Properties | Lean towards: nonexistent |
Propositional attitudes | Accept an alternative view: social convention |
Propositions | Lean towards: nonexistent |
Quantum mechanics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Race | Accept: social |
Race categories | Lean towards: revise |
Rational disagreement | Accept: permissivism |
Response to external-world skepticism | Accept: pragmatic |
Science | There is no fact of the matter |
Semantic content | Accept: radical contextualism (most or all) |
Sleeping beauty | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Spacetime | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Statue and lump | Accept: two things |
Teletransporter | Lean towards: death |
Temporal ontology | Lean towards: presentism |
Theory of reference | Accept an alternative view: No semantic content -- reference is pragmatic |
Time |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Time travel | Lean towards: metaphysically impossible |
Trolley problem | There is no fact of the matter |
True contradictions | Lean towards: actual |
Truth | Accept: deflationary |
Units of selection | Lean towards: organisms |
Vagueness | Lean towards: metaphysical |
Values in science | Accept: necessarily value-laden |
Well-being | Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism |
Wittgenstein | Lean towards: late |
Zombies | Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible |