My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Accept an alternative view: Subjective preference for veganism
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Other
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept social
  • Accept psychological
  • Accept biological
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: interpretational
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition There is no fact of the matter
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept internalism
  • Accept externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Morality Accept: error theory
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics There is no fact of the matter
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Perceptual experience Lean towards: qualia theory
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Political philosophy Accept an alternative view: Subjective preference for egalitarianism
Proper names Accept: Fregean
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept biological
  • Accept social
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: minimalism (no more than a few)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Time Accept an alternative view: 'Now' has no nonindexical reference. Time passes.
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept an alternative view: Subjective preference for switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept semantic
  • Lean towards metaphysical
Wittgenstein Other
Zombies Lean towards: inconceivable