My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: moral
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Agnostic/undecided
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: design
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept non-skeptical realism
  • Accept idealism
  • Reject skepticism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: libertarianism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Lean towards: eliminate
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: interpretational
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Agnostic/undecided
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral particularism
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Lean towards: ought
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Reject cats
  • Reject fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: semantic externalist
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Accept: growing block
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept an alternative view: Growing block theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: epistemic
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-free
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible