My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Lean towards: yes |
| Abortion | Accept: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Accept: nominalism |
| Aesthetic experience | Accept an alternative view: Hybrid view: partly perception, partly pleasure |
| Aesthetic value | Accept an alternative view: Intermediate: some aspects are subjective, some are objective. |
| Aim of philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Analysis of knowledge | Agnostic/undecided |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Accept an alternative view: It's a useful heuristic for many purposes but not a hard-and-fast logical distinction. |
| Arguments for theism | Accept: pragmatic |
| Belief or credence | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
| Causation | Lean towards: process/production |
| Chinese room | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Concepts | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Consciousness | Lean towards: panpsychism |
| Continuum hypothesis | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Lean towards: no fine-tuning |
| Eating animals and animal products | Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes) |
| Environmental ethics | Agnostic/undecided |
| Epistemic justification | Lean towards: internalism |
| Experience machine | Lean towards: no |
| Extended mind | Agnostic/undecided |
| External world | Accept an alternative view: Pragmatism: it's best to act as if the external world is real, even though it can't be demonstrated. |
| Footbridge | Agnostic/undecided |
| Foundations of mathematics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Free will | Accept an alternative view: Pragmatism: we should/must act as if we have free will (of some kind) even though it can't be demonstrated either way |
| Gender | Accept: social |
| Gender categories | Accept: revise |
| God | Lean towards: atheism |
| Grounds of intentionality | Lean towards: interpretational |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Lean towards: yes |
| Human genetic engineering | Agnostic/undecided |
| Hume | Accept an alternative view: Part-time skeptic, part-time naturalist |
| Immortality | Agnostic/undecided |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Agnostic/undecided |
| Justification | Agnostic/undecided |
| Kant | Lean towards: one world |
| Knowledge | Accept: empiricism |
| Knowledge claims |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Law | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Laws of nature | Accept: Humean |
| Logic | Agnostic/undecided |
| Material composition | There is no fact of the matter |
| Meaning of life | Accept: subjective |
| Mental content | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Meta-ethics | Accept: moral anti-realism |
| Metaontology | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Metaphilosophy | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Method in history of philosophy | Accept: contextual/historicist |
| Method in political philosophy | Lean towards: non-ideal theory |
| Mind | Lean towards: physicalism |
| Mind uploading | Lean towards: survival |
| Moral judgment | Lean towards: non-cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Agnostic/undecided |
| Moral principles | There is no fact of the matter |
| Morality | Lean towards: constructivism |
| Newcomb's problem | Lean towards: one box |
| Normative concepts | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Normative ethics | Accept an alternative view: Patchwork theory: different models are best for different purposes, none is fundamental |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Ought implies can | Lean towards: yes |
| Perceptual experience | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Personal identity | Lean towards: psychological view |
| Philosophical knowledge | Agnostic/undecided |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Lean towards: a little |
| Plato | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Political philosophy | Accept an alternative view: Egalitarian liberalism |
| Politics | Accept an alternative view: Hybrid system: social control of essentials, market distribution of non-essential goods |
| Possible worlds | Accept: nonexistent |
| Practical reason | Agnostic/undecided |
| Principle of sufficient reason | There is no fact of the matter |
| Proper names | Agnostic/undecided |
| Properties | There is no fact of the matter |
| Propositional attitudes | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Propositions | There is no fact of the matter |
| Quantum mechanics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Race | Accept: social |
| Race categories | Accept an alternative view: Preserve and revise as necessary for the pursuit of equity, eventually eliminate |
| Rational disagreement | Lean towards: permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Accept: pragmatic |
| Science | Accept: scientific anti-realism |
| Semantic content | Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate) |
| Sleeping beauty | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Spacetime | There is no fact of the matter |
| Statue and lump | There is no fact of the matter |
| Teletransporter | Lean towards: survival |
| Temporal ontology | Agnostic/undecided |
| Theory of reference | Agnostic/undecided |
| Time | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Time travel | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Trolley problem | Lean towards: switch |
| True contradictions | Agnostic/undecided |
| Truth | Accept: epistemic |
| Units of selection | There is no fact of the matter |
| Vagueness |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Values in science | Accept: necessarily value-laden |
| Well-being | Accept an alternative view: Higher-order desire satisfaction (roughly, authenticity) |
| Wittgenstein | Accept: late |
| Zombies | Agnostic/undecided |