My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abortion Accept: impermissible
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: Aristotelian Moderate realism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: cosmological
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: design
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards internalism
  • Neutral towards externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: libertarianism
Gender Accept: biological
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: identity
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards internalism
  • Neutral towards externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Accept an alternative view: Just Moral Realism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Neutral towards cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Accept: libertarianism
Politics Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: true
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Lean towards: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Lean towards: simple entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: biological
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: presentism
Theory of reference Lean towards: descriptive
Time Accept: A-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept an alternative view: There is no "right" answer.
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible