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Ryan Hauger

University of Arizona
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Tucson, AZ, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics
Areas of Interest
Time Travel
Well-Being
Panpsychism
Normative Ethics
Free Will
The A Priori
Justification
Eternalism
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Aesthetic experience: sui generis
  • Reject Aesthetic experience: pleasure
  • Neutral towards Aesthetic experience: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Analytic-synthetic distinction Agnostic/undecided
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment The question is too unclear to answer
Causation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Causation: counterfactual/difference-making
  • Lean against Causation: process/production
  • Lean towards Causation: primitive
  • Lean against Causation: nonexistent
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 Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Gender: biological
  • Neutral towards Gender: unreal
  • Lean towards Gender: psychological
  • Lean towards Gender: social
Gender categories Accept: revise
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Agnostic/undecided
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality The question is too unclear to answer
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
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 Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life Lean towards: objective
Mental content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Normative ethics: deontology
  • Reject Normative ethics: consequentialism
  • Lean towards Normative ethics: virtue ethics
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
  • Neutral towards Particles are conscious
  • Accept Newborn babies are conscious
  • Lean against Current AI systems are conscious
  • Lean towards Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: linguistic philosophy
  • Accept Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Philosophical progress: none
  • Lean towards Philosophical progress: a little
  • Lean towards Philosophical progress: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Practical reason: Aristotelian
  • Reject Practical reason: Humean
  • Neutral towards Practical reason: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Agnostic/undecided
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Lean towards: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Propositional attitudes: dispositional
  • Neutral towards Propositional attitudes: phenomenal
  • Neutral towards Propositional attitudes: representational
  • Lean against Propositional attitudes: nonexistent
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement The question is too unclear to answer
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 Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Epistemic views of vagueness
  • Lean towards Metaphysical views of vagueness
  • Neutral towards Semantic views of vagueness
Values in science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Agnostic/undecided