My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Agnostic/undecided
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards Aim of philosophy: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Arguments for theism: cosmological
  • Reject Arguments for theism: design
  • Reject Arguments for theism: ontological
  • Reject Arguments for theism: pragmatic
  • Reject Arguments for theism: moral
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Accept: understands
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Consciousness: dualism
  • Lean towards Consciousness: eliminativism
  • Lean against Consciousness: functionalism
  • Reject Consciousness: identity theory
  • Reject Consciousness: panpsychism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Lean towards: yes
Extended mind Agnostic/undecided
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Agnostic/undecided
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Lean towards: biological
God Accept: atheism
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality There is no fact of the matter
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Law Agnostic/undecided
Laws of nature Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Lean towards: nihilism
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: error theory
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Other minds: adult humans
  • Lean towards Other minds: cats
  • Lean against Other minds: fish
  • Lean against Other minds: flies
  • Lean against Other minds: worms
  • Reject Other minds: plants
  • Reject Other minds: particles
  • Lean towards Other minds: newborn babies
  • Lean against Other minds: current AI systems
  • Lean towards Other minds: future AI systems
Perceptual experience Agnostic/undecided
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
  • Lean against Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
  • Accept Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
  • Reject Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Political philosophy Lean towards: libertarianism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Accept: nonexistent
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: biological
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Accept: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Agnostic/undecided
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: minimalism (no more than a few)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Agnostic/undecided
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Accept: genes
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-free
Well-being Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Accept: inconceivable