My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Accept: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Agnostic/undecided
Consciousness Lean towards: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Agnostic/undecided
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: logicism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality Accept: interpretational
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Agnostic/undecided
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: identity
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept internalism
  • Accept externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading The question is too unclear to answer
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: constructivism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts Lean towards: ought
Normative ethics Agnostic/undecided
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean against fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Fregean
Properties Lean towards: tropes
Propositional attitudes Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept dispositional
  • Accept representational
Propositions Lean towards: sets
Quantum mechanics Accept: collapse
Race Accept: social
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Accept: relationism
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference The question is too unclear to answer
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: actual
Truth Accept an alternative view: Semantic
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept metaphysical
  • Accept semantic
Values in science Agnostic/undecided
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein There is no fact of the matter
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible