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:
|
| 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:
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| 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 |