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Phil Stilwell

New York University
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion There is no fact of the matter
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Aesthetic experience is a form of perception
  • Lean towards Aesthetic experience is a form of pleasure
  • Lean against Aesthetic experience is sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Analysis of knowledge There is no fact of the matter
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism The question is too unclear to answer
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Accept: permissible
Causation Accept: process/production
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics There is no fact of the matter
Epistemic justification Other
Experience machine There is no fact of the matter
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Lean towards: idealism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: structuralism
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Lean towards: biological
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: inferential
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims The question is too unclear to answer
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Classical view of logic
  • Lean towards Non-classical view of logic
Material composition Lean towards: nihilism
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading There is no fact of the matter
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles There is no fact of the matter
Morality Accept: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics There is no fact of the matter
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Adult humans are conscious
  • Accept Cats are conscious
  • Accept Fish are conscious
  • Neutral towards Flies are conscious
  • Neutral towards Worms are conscious
  • Lean against Plants are conscious
  • Reject Particles are conscious
  • Accept Newborn babies are conscious
  • Neutral towards Current AI systems are conscious
  • Lean towards Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: qualia theory
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: none
Plato Agnostic/undecided
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Communitarianism in political philosophy
  • Neutral towards Egalitarianism in political philosophy
  • Lean towards Libertarianism in political philosophy
Politics There is no fact of the matter
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Agnostic/undecided
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: hidden-variables
Race There is no fact of the matter
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: epistemic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology There is no fact of the matter
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: epistemic
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Genes are the unit of natural selection
  • Lean towards Organisms are the unit of natural selection
Vagueness Accept: epistemic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-free
Well-being There is no fact of the matter
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible