My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Accept: sui generis
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject ontological
  • Reject moral
  • Reject design
Belief or credence Accept an alternative view: Two kinds of credence
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: primitive
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Other
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards logicism
  • Lean towards structuralism
  • Lean against constructivism/intuitionism
  • Lean against set-theoretic
  • Reject formalism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept an alternative view: Normativism
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards skeptic
  • Lean towards naturalist
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject reliabilism
  • Accept coherentism
  • Reject infinitism
  • Lean towards nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept analytic/rational reconstruction
  • Accept contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind The question is too unclear to answer
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against naturalist realism
  • Lean against non-naturalism
  • Reject error theory
  • Reject expressivism
  • Reject constructivism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards virtue ethics
  • Lean towards deontology
  • Reject consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards communitarianism
  • Lean towards egalitarianism
  • Lean towards libertarianism
Politics Accept an alternative view: property-owning democracy
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Accept: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Accept: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Other
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject minimalism (no more than a few)
  • Lean towards radical contextualism (most or all)
  • Lean towards moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-third
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Accept an alternative view: Conceptual role semantics
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards hedonism/experientialism
  • Accept objective list
  • Reject desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible