Ohio State University
Department of Mathematics
PhD, 1995
Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Probability
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Probability

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Skipped
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept an alternative view: Justified Belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Skipped
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject eliminativism
  • Neutral towards panpsychism
  • Reject functionalism
  • Reject identity theory
  • Accept dualism
Continuum hypothesis Accept: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Skipped
Free will Accept an alternative view: Multiverse, consciousness biased toward favorable branches
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject unreal
  • Accept psychological
  • Reject social
  • Accept biological
Gender categories Skipped
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Skipped
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Skipped
Justification Skipped
Kant Skipped
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Skipped
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Skipped
Meaning of life Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mental content Accept: internalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Skipped
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Skipped
Method in political philosophy Skipped
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Skipped
Morality Skipped
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Skipped
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Accept worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can Skipped
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept psychological view
  • Accept biological view
  • Reject further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Reject linguistic philosophy
  • Reject empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Reject experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Skipped
Political philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Politics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards capitalism
  • Lean against socialism
Possible worlds Accept an alternative view: One infinite world
Practical reason Skipped
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Accept: classes
Propositional attitudes Skipped
Propositions Accept: sets
Quantum mechanics Accept: many-worlds
Race Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race categories Skipped
Rational disagreement Accept: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Skipped
Science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Semantic content Skipped
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-third
Spacetime Skipped
Statue and lump Skipped
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Accept an alternative view: Physical universe static; consciousness eternal and aperiodic
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Accept: A-theory
Time travel Skipped
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept an alternative view: Vague terms lack semantic value
Values in science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being Skipped
Wittgenstein Accept an alternative view: No discontinuity between early/late Wittgenstein
Zombies Accept an alternative view: Conceivable