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Paul Richard Blum

Loyola University Maryland
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LMU Munich
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies
PhD, 1978
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Religion
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
17th/18th Century Philosophy
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Religion
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
History of Western Philosophy, Misc
Natural Sciences
17th/18th Century Philosophy
Continental Philosophy
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abstract objects Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Platonism
  • Accept nominalism
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept understanding
  • Neutral towards goodness/justice
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Neutral towards happiness
Analysis of knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject no analysis
  • Accept other analysis
  • Accept justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Causation Agnostic/undecided
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Eating animals and animal products Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards veganism (no and no)
  • Reject omnivorism (yes and yes)
  • Accept vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Skipped
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept externalism
  • Accept internalism
  • Accept transcendentalism
Experience machine Insufficiently familiar with the issue
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept don't push
  • Accept push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept biological
  • Reject unreal
  • Accept social
  • Accept psychological
God Accept: theism
Immortality Accept: yes
Knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept rationalism
  • Accept empiricism
Knowledge claims Skipped
Law Skipped
Laws of nature Skipped
Logic Accept: classical
Meaning of life Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept objective
  • Accept subjective
  • Reject nonexistent
Mental content Skipped
Meta-ethics Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept an alternative view: seamless continuum between mind and body
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Reject cats
  • Reject fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Perceptual experience The question is too unclear to answer
Personal identity Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards biological view
  • Reject further-fact view
  • Accept psychological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Reject conceptual engineering
  • Reject experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject none
  • Lean towards a little
  • Lean towards a lot
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept libertarianism
  • Accept communitarianism
  • Accept egalitarianism
Politics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards capitalism
  • Lean towards socialism
Proper names Skipped
Properties Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Accept transcendent universals
  • Accept immanent universals
  • Accept classes
  • Lean towards tropes
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept social
  • Accept biological
  • Reject unreal
Response to external-world skepticism Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Agnostic/undecided
Truth Agnostic/undecided
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept epistemic
  • Reject metaphysical
  • Accept semantic
Values in science Skipped
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible