My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| 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 |