My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept: pleasure
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: goodness/justice
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism There is no fact of the matter
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Agnostic/undecided
Concepts Agnostic/undecided
Consciousness Accept: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject omnivorism (yes and yes)
  • Lean towards veganism (no and no)
  • Accept vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world There is no fact of the matter
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: psychological
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness There is no fact of the matter
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Accept an alternative view: pragmatism
Knowledge claims Accept an alternative view: pragmatism, reject question
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind There is no fact of the matter
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept an alternative view: Hybridism/pluralism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles There is no fact of the matter
Morality Lean towards: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics There is no fact of the matter
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Neutral towards plants
  • Lean towards particles
  • Neutral towards newborn babies
  • Neutral towards current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: qualia theory
Personal identity Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical knowledge Other
Philosophical methods There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards communitarianism
  • Lean towards egalitarianism
  • Lean towards libertarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Agnostic/undecided
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: pragmatic
Science Accept an alternative view: Natural Ontological Attitude
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology Agnostic/undecided
Theory of reference Accept: deflationary
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem There is no fact of the matter
True contradictions Lean towards: possible but non-actual
Truth Accept: deflationary
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Values in science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible