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Rasmus Overmark

University of St. Andrews
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Truth/knowledge is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean towards Understanding is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean towards Wisdom is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean towards Happiness is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean towards Goodness/justice is an important aim of philosophy
Analysis of knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Lean towards: ontological
Belief or credence Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Other
Chinese room Accept: understands
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept an alternative view: Scaffolded mind
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics The question is too unclear to answer
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Classical view of logic
  • Lean towards Non-classical view of logic
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: Hybrid view
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
Ought implies can Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Agnostic/undecided
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Communitarianism in political philosophy
  • Lean towards Egalitarianism in political philosophy
  • Lean against Libertarianism in political philosophy
Politics The question is too unclear to answer
Possible worlds Agnostic/undecided
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Properties Lean towards: tropes
Propositional attitudes Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Dispositional views of propositional attitudes
  • Reject Phenomenal views of propositional attitudes
  • Lean towards Representational views of propositional attitudes
  • Lean against Eliminativism about propositional attitudes
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Lean towards: unreal
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Accept an alternative view: Structural realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter Agnostic/undecided
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Agnostic/undecided
Truth Accept an alternative view: pragmatic
Units of selection Accept an alternative view: Multilevel selection
Vagueness Agnostic/undecided
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Hedonism or experientialism about well-being
  • Lean towards Desire satisfaction views of well-being
  • Neutral towards Objective list views of well-being
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Accept: inconceivable