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Olivia Roberts

University of California, Davis
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APA Western Division
Davis, California, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics
Meta-Ethics
Quantum Mechanics
Space and Time
Modality
Free Will
Freedom and Liberty
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Accept: cosmological
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Agnostic/undecided
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Insufficiently familiar with the issue
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject formalism
  • Neutral towards set-theoretic
  • Reject constructivism/intuitionism
  • Lean towards structuralism
  • Lean towards logicism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards causal/teleological
  • Lean towards interpretational
  • Reject primitive
  • Lean towards inferential
  • Lean against phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Agnostic/undecided
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: realization
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Agnostic/undecided
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life Lean towards: objective
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Agnostic/undecided
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Moral principles The question is too unclear to answer
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Other minds: adult humans
  • Accept Other minds: cats
  • Neutral towards Other minds: fish
  • Lean against Other minds: flies
  • Lean against Other minds: worms
  • Reject Other minds: plants
  • Reject Other minds: particles
  • Accept Other minds: newborn babies
  • Neutral towards Other minds: current AI systems
  • Accept Other minds: future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Other
Politics Other
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Accept: tropes
Propositional attitudes Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against phenomenal
  • Lean towards representational
  • Lean towards dispositional
  • Reject nonexistent
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: hidden-variables
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards causal
  • Lean towards descriptive
  • Lean towards deflationary
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept objective list
  • Accept eudaimonism
Wittgenstein Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Zombies Lean towards: inconceivable