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Paul Ott

Loyola University, Chicago
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept an alternative view: Pragmatic
Aesthetic value Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept objective
  • Accept subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept happiness
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject design
  • Reject moral
  • Reject ontological
Belief or credence Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept credence
  • Reject neither
  • Accept belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Agnostic/undecided
Chinese room Agnostic/undecided
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Skipped
Eating animals and animal products The question is too unclear to answer
Environmental ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept non-anthropocentric
  • Accept anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept externalism
  • Accept internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Skipped
Free will Lean towards: libertarianism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept social
  • Accept psychological
  • Accept unreal
  • Accept biological
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Agnostic/undecided
Kant Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Accept subjective
  • Accept objective
Mental content Agnostic/undecided
Meta-ethics Accept an alternative view: pragmatic moral realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept an alternative view: Pragmatic theory of mind
Mind uploading There is no fact of the matter
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept internalism
  • Accept externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral particularism
Morality Accept: constructivism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept ought
  • Accept reasons
  • Accept value
  • Accept fit
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept consequentialism
  • Accept virtue ethics
  • Accept deontology
  • Accept consumationism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against qualia theory
  • Lean against disjunctivism
  • Lean against sense-datum theory
  • Lean against representationalism
Personal identity Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress The question is too unclear to answer
Plato Agnostic/undecided
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept egalitarianism
  • Accept libertarianism
  • Accept communitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds There is no fact of the matter
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Agnostic/undecided
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Agnostic/undecided
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept revise
  • Reject preserve
  • Accept eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: contextualist
Science Accept an alternative view: pragmatic realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel There is no fact of the matter
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
True contradictions Skipped
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept genes
  • Accept organisms
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept semantic
  • Accept epistemic
  • Accept metaphysical
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies There is no fact of the matter