My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept: sui generis
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: wisdom
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
God Lean towards: atheism
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition There is no fact of the matter
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Neutral towards cats
  • Reject fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Reject conceptual engineering
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Race Accept: social
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: semantic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Time Accept: A-theory
Time travel Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible