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:
  • Lean towards happiness
  • Lean against truth/knowledge
  • Neutral towards goodness/justice
  • Lean towards understanding
  • Neutral towards wisdom
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:
  • Lean towards contextualism
  • Lean against invariantism
  • Lean towards relativism
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:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Accept worms
  • Lean towards plants
  • Neutral towards particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Neutral towards current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
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:
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
  • Accept The best methods depend on the question
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:
  • Lean towards epistemic
  • Reject metaphysical
  • Lean towards semantic
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