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Rohan French

University of California, Davis
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Monash University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2011
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Davis, California, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Language

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Reject happiness
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept wisdom
  • Neutral towards goodness/justice
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Agnostic/undecided
Arguments for theism Lean towards: ontological
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards primitive
  • Lean towards counterfactual/difference-making
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Lean towards process/production
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards identity theory
  • Lean against panpsychism
  • Lean against eliminativism
  • Lean against dualism
  • Lean towards functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against logicism
  • Lean towards structuralism
  • Accept set-theoretic
  • Lean against formalism
  • Lean towards constructivism/intuitionism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Lean towards: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: inferential
Hard problem of consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Agnostic/undecided
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Material composition Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept nihilism
  • Accept universalism
  • Reject restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Agnostic/undecided
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: survival
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: constructivism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Neutral towards plants
  • Reject particles
  • Neutral 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 Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards socialism
  • Lean towards capitalism
Possible worlds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards concrete
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Lean towards abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject acts
  • Neutral towards sets
  • Lean towards structured entities
  • Lean towards simple entities
  • Reject nonexistent
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: many-worlds
Race Accept: social
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Agnostic/undecided
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Agnostic/undecided
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards semantic
  • Lean against epistemic
  • Lean towards metaphysical
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Agnostic/undecided
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible