My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept: perception
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: moral
Belief or credence Accept: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis Accept: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: idealism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Accept: naturalist
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: realization
Justification Accept: coherentism
Kant Accept: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Lean towards: nihilism
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept: anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept: ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Accept: ought
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: sense-datum theory
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Accept: tropes
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Accept: sets
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: epistemic externalist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-third
Spacetime Accept: relationism
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Accept: presentism
Theory of reference Accept: deflationary
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: deflationary
Units of selection Accept: genes
Vagueness Accept: metaphysical
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Accept: desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible