My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: cosmological
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: design
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: set-theoretic
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards social
  • Reject unreal
  • Lean towards psychological
  • Accept biological
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Lean towards: objective
Mental content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Reject fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Lean towards: classes
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: many-worlds
Race Lean towards: social
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Agnostic/undecided
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Agnostic/undecided
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards semantic
  • Lean against metaphysical
  • Accept epistemic
Values in science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible