My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Agnostic/undecided
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics The question is too unclear to answer
Justification Accept: coherentism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: invariantism
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Lean towards: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: 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:
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
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: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
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: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible