My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: impermissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept: perception
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Accept: pragmatic
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: design
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: libertarianism
Gender Lean towards: psychological
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading The question is too unclear to answer
Moral judgment Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral motivation The question is too unclear to answer
Moral principles Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Morality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Accept: reasons
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Accept: libertarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: nonexistent
Propositions Lean towards: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: unreal
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: pragmatic
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Temporal ontology Lean towards: presentism
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem The question is too unclear to answer
True contradictions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept: organisms
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Accept: inconceivable