My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: 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 Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Accept: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Accept: yes
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: structuralism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept an alternative view: it depends on what you are trying to do
Justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept an alternative view: instrumentalism
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Agnostic/undecided
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: survival
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Morality Lean towards: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept an alternative view: conventionalism ala Miller, Braddon-Mitchell and West
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Agnostic/undecided
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Properties Lean towards: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Accept an alternative view: wave function realism
Race Accept: unreal
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Temporal ontology Accept an alternative view: Time does not exist
Theory of reference Lean towards: descriptive
Time Accept an alternative view: Time does not exist
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Agnostic/undecided
Wittgenstein Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible