My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept truth/knowledge
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: ontological
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Eating animals and animal products Accept: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Skipped
Foundations of mathematics Accept: logicism
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
God Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality Accept: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Meaning of life There is no fact of the matter
Mental content Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Newcomb's problem Skipped
Normative concepts Skipped
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: sense-datum theory
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Reject conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Skipped
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Proper names Accept: Fregean
Race Accept: social
Race categories Skipped
Science Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter Skipped
Theory of reference Accept: descriptive
Time Accept: A-theory
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Lean towards: epistemic
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible