My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Accept an alternative view: sui generis type of pleasure
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Accept: primitive
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Accept: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept: unreal
Gender categories The question is too unclear to answer
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: primitive
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: grounding
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles The question is too unclear to answer
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience Accept: disjunctivism
Personal identity Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Reject conceptual engineering
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: libertarianism
Politics Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Accept an alternative view: Transcendant universals and tropes
Propositional attitudes The question is too unclear to answer
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: biological
Race categories Accept: preserve
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Accept: substantivalism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: presentism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards epistemic
  • Lean towards semantic
  • Reject metaphysical
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-free
Well-being Lean towards: desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Accept: early
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible