My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Agnostic/undecided
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Agnostic/undecided
Free will Lean towards: no free will
Gender Lean towards: biological
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Agnostic/undecided
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: constructivism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Accept an alternative view: The embodied mind view (Jeff McMahan and late Parfit)
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Agnostic/undecided
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Properties Lean towards: tropes
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: biological
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: pragmatic
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Agnostic/undecided
Theory of reference Agnostic/undecided
Time Agnostic/undecided
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-free
Well-being Agnostic/undecided
Wittgenstein Accept an alternative view: Neither
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible