My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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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 |