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Peter Bokulich

University of Notre Dame
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abstract objects Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept subjective
  • Accept objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Agnostic/undecided
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
God Accept: atheism
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: supervenience
Justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards reliabilism
  • Lean towards coherentism
Knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empiricism
  • Accept rationalism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Meaning of life Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept objective
  • Accept subjective
Mental content Agnostic/undecided
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards contextual/historicist
  • Lean towards analytic/rational reconstruction
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Agnostic/undecided
Moral motivation The question is too unclear to answer
Moral principles Agnostic/undecided
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards virtue ethics
  • Lean towards consequentialism
Perceptual experience Lean towards: qualia theory
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean against formal philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards communitarianism
  • Reject libertarianism
  • Lean towards egalitarianism
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Science Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Time Accept: B-theory
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept genes
  • Accept organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Zombies Accept: inconceivable