My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept an alternative view: Nominalism on universals; Platonism on numbers.
Aesthetic experience Accept: pleasure
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Agnostic/undecided
Capital punishment Accept an alternative view: Permissible in principle; not permissible in practice (in most societies or cases).
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Accept: nativism
Consciousness Accept an alternative view: Functionalism for propositional attitudes; qualia as epiphenomenal properties of brain states.
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Agnostic/undecided
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: set-theoretic
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories The question is too unclear to answer
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: inferential
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept an alternative view: They are equally as important
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Accept: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: mixed deontological theory; teleology of rights
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: qualia theory
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept Scientific Philosophy - philosophy cannot contradict well-established scientific theories on a priori grounds.
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: true
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Accept an alternative view: Wilfrid Sellars' view: properties, as all universals, should be analyzed as metalinguistic singular distributive sortals.
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: hidden-variables
Race Accept: social
Race categories Other
Rational disagreement The question is too unclear to answer
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Accept an alternative view: these positions may not necessarily be contradictory
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: growing block
Theory of reference Lean towards: descriptive
Time Accept: A-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: epistemic
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-free
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible