My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: pleasure
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: design
Belief or credence Agnostic/undecided
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept an alternative view: Pluralism
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Accept: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject no fine-tuning
  • Lean towards multiverse
  • Accept brute fact
  • Lean against design
Eating animals and animal products Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept vegetarianism (no and yes)
  • Lean towards veganism (no and no)
  • Reject omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Agnostic/undecided
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: social
Gender categories Accept: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Agnostic/undecided
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: realization
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Kant Accept: one world
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Agnostic/undecided
Material composition Accept: universalism
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
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 Accept: one box
Normative concepts Accept: reasons
Normative ethics Agnostic/undecided
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Lean towards: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept: dispositional
Propositions Agnostic/undecided
Quantum mechanics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards hidden-variables
  • Lean against collapse
  • Lean against epistemic
  • Lean towards many-worlds
Race Accept: social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: semantic externalist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Lean towards: one-half
Spacetime Accept: relationism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Agnostic/undecided
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept: genes
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-free
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept hedonism/experientialism
  • Lean towards desire satisfaction
  • Reject objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible