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Samuel J. Thomas

University of Arizona
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Other
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Aim of philosophy: understanding
  • Lean towards Aim of philosophy: wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Arguments for theism: cosmological
  • Reject Arguments for theism: design
  • Reject Arguments for theism: ontological
  • Reject Arguments for theism: pragmatic
  • Reject Arguments for theism: moral
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment The question is too unclear to answer
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Eating animals and animal products: omnivorism (yes and yes)
  • Accept Eating animals and animal products: vegetarianism (no and yes)
  • Lean towards Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Agnostic/undecided
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: push
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Gender: biological
  • Lean towards Gender: psychological
  • Accept Gender: social
Gender categories Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Gender categories: preserve
  • Lean towards Gender categories: revise
  • Lean towards Gender categories: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Justification Lean towards: infinitism
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Law: legal positivism
  • Lean against Law: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Morality: non-naturalism
  • Lean against Morality: naturalist realism
  • Reject Morality: constructivism
  • Lean towards Morality: expressivism
  • Reject Morality: error theory
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Other minds: adult humans
  • Lean towards Other minds: cats
  • Lean towards Other minds: fish
  • Lean towards Other minds: flies
  • Lean towards Other minds: worms
  • Neutral towards Other minds: plants
  • Reject Other minds: particles
  • Lean towards Other minds: newborn babies
  • Lean against Other minds: current AI systems
  • Neutral towards Other minds: future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
  • Lean against Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
  • Reject Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Race Accept: social
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Response to external-world skepticism: abductive
  • Neutral towards Response to external-world skepticism: contextualist
  • Neutral towards Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
  • Lean towards Response to external-world skepticism: epistemic externalist
  • Accept Response to external-world skepticism: semantic externalist
  • Lean towards Response to external-world skepticism: pragmatic
Science Agnostic/undecided
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible