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Ryan Hauger

University of Arizona
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APA Western Division
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Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Consciousness
Time
Well-Being
Normative Ethics
The A Priori
Intuition
Free Will
Socialism and Marxism
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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 Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
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 Lean towards: primitive
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 Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Design explains cosmological fine-tuning
  • Lean against The multiverse explains cosmological fine-tuning
  • Lean towards Nothing explains cosmological fine-tuning
  • Lean against There is no cosmological fine-tuning
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 is biological
  • Lean against Gender is unreal
  • Lean towards Gender is psychological
  • Lean towards Gender is 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 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 Lean towards: classical
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
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 Agnostic/undecided
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 Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Non-naturalism about morality
  • Lean towards Naturalist realism about morality
  • Reject Constructivism about morality
  • Lean against Expressivism about morality
  • Reject Error theory of morality
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
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
  • Lean towards 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 Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of 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 Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Communitarianism in political philosophy
  • Lean towards Egalitarianism in political philosophy
  • Reject Libertarianism in political philosophy
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 Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Properties are classes
  • Lean towards Properties are immanent universals
  • Lean towards Properties are transcendent universals
  • Lean towards Properties are tropes
  • Lean against Properties are nonexistent
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 Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Propositions are sets
  • Lean towards Propositions are structured entities
  • Neutral towards Propositions are simple entities
  • Neutral towards Propositions are acts
  • Reject Propositions are nonexistent
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 Agnostic/undecided
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 Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Causal theories of reference
  • Neutral towards Descriptive theories of reference
  • Neutral towards Deflationary theories of reference
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: 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 Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Agnostic/undecided