My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Understanding is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean towards Wisdom is an important aim of philosophy
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Agnostic/undecided
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment The question is too unclear to answer
Causation Other
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Accept: panpsychism
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: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Agnostic/undecided
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Nihilism about material composition
  • Lean towards Restrictivism about material composition
  • Lean towards Universalism about material composition
Meaning of life Lean towards: objective
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept I prefer the ideal theory method in political philosophy
  • Accept I prefer the non-ideal theory method in political philosophy
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Agnostic/undecided
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Adult humans are conscious
  • Accept Cats are conscious
  • Accept Fish are conscious
  • Accept Flies are conscious
  • Accept Worms are conscious
  • Lean towards Plants are conscious
  • Lean towards Particles are conscious
  • Accept Newborn babies are conscious
  • Neutral towards Current AI systems are conscious
  • Lean towards Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical knowledge Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Lean towards: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Agnostic/undecided
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement There is no fact of the matter
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: dogmatist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Lean towards: inconceivable