My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: cosmological
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Accept: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Lean towards: skepticism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Agnostic/undecided
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Skipped
Gender categories Skipped
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Agnostic/undecided
Hard problem of consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Human genetic engineering Accept an alternative view: It depends on the purpose.
Hume Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept skeptic
  • Accept naturalist
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Agnostic/undecided
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Agnostic/undecided
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept an alternative view: both have their place
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Agnostic/undecided
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept an alternative view: liberalism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Accept an alternative view: Non-descriptivist Fregeanism
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Agnostic/undecided
Propositions Accept: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: hidden-variables
Race Skipped
Race categories Skipped
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: minimalism (no more than a few)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Agnostic/undecided
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Agnostic/undecided
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-free
Well-being Accept an alternative view: Perfectionism
Wittgenstein Accept an alternative view: Neither
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible