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Noah Gordon

University of Southern California
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Cosmological fine-tuning Agnostic/undecided
Eating animals and animal products The question is too unclear to answer
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Other
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Free will Agnostic/undecided
Gender Lean towards: biological
Gender categories Lean towards: eliminate
God Lean towards: atheism
Human genetic engineering The question is too unclear to answer
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Grounding is the most useful relation in interlevel metaphysics
  • Neutral towards Identity is the most useful relation in interlevel metaphysics
  • Lean towards Realization is the most useful relation in interlevel metaphysics
  • Lean towards Supervenience is the most useful relation in interlevel metaphysics
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Agnostic/undecided
Material composition Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Nihilism about material composition
  • Lean against Restrictivism about material composition
  • Neutral towards Universalism about material composition
Meaning of life Lean towards: nonexistent
Mental content Agnostic/undecided
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Moral judgment Agnostic/undecided
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Adult humans are conscious
  • Accept Cats are conscious
  • Lean towards Fish are conscious
  • Lean towards Flies are conscious
  • Lean towards Worms are conscious
  • Lean against Plants are conscious
  • Lean against Particles are conscious
  • Lean towards Newborn babies are conscious
  • Lean against Current AI systems are conscious
  • Lean towards Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Other
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress The question is too unclear to answer
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Race Lean towards: social
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Agnostic/undecided
Temporal ontology Lean towards: presentism
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
Truth Agnostic/undecided
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Well-being Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Other
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible