My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Accept: yes |
| Abortion | Accept: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Accept an alternative view: Dummett's antirealism |
| Aesthetic experience | Lean towards: pleasure |
| Aesthetic value | Accept: subjective |
| Aim of philosophy | Accept: truth/knowledge |
| Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: justified true belief |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Agnostic/undecided |
| Arguments for theism | Accept an alternative view: none of the above |
| Belief or credence | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
| Causation | Lean towards: process/production |
| Chinese room | Accept: understands |
| Concepts | Lean towards: empiricism |
| Consciousness | Lean towards: functionalism |
| Continuum hypothesis | Lean towards: indeterminate |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Accept: no fine-tuning |
| Eating animals and animal products | Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes) |
| Environmental ethics | Accept: anthropocentric |
| Epistemic justification | Lean towards: internalism |
| Experience machine | Accept: yes |
| Extended mind | Lean towards: no |
| External world | Accept an alternative view: Antirealism similar to Michael Dummett |
| Footbridge | Accept: push |
| Foundations of mathematics | Accept: constructivism/intuitionism |
| Free will | Accept: no free will |
| Gender |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Gender categories | Agnostic/undecided |
| God | Accept: atheism |
| Grounds of intentionality | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Lean towards: no |
| Human genetic engineering | Accept: permissible |
| Hume | Lean towards: skeptic |
| Immortality | Lean towards: no |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Agnostic/undecided |
| Justification | Accept an alternative view: too complex to enter here |
| Kant | Lean towards: two worlds |
| Knowledge | Accept: empiricism |
| Knowledge claims | Lean towards: invariantism |
| Law | Lean towards: legal positivism |
| Laws of nature | Accept: Humean |
| Logic | Accept: non-classical |
| Material composition | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Meaning of life | Accept: nonexistent |
| Mental content | Accept: internalism |
| Meta-ethics | Accept: moral anti-realism |
| Metaontology | Accept: anti-realism |
| Metaphilosophy | Accept: naturalism |
| Method in history of philosophy | Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction |
| Method in political philosophy | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Mind | Accept: physicalism |
| Mind uploading | Lean towards: survival |
| Moral judgment | Lean towards: non-cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Accept: internalism |
| Moral principles | Lean towards: moral particularism |
| Morality | Agnostic/undecided |
| Newcomb's problem | Accept: one box |
| Normative concepts | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Normative ethics | Lean towards: consequentialism |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Ought implies can | Lean towards: no |
| Perceptual experience | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Personal identity | Accept: biological view |
| Philosophical knowledge | Lean towards: a lot |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Lean towards: a lot |
| Plato | Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things |
| Political philosophy | Accept: egalitarianism |
| Politics | Lean towards: capitalism |
| Possible worlds | Accept: nonexistent |
| Practical reason | Lean towards: Humean |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Accept: false |
| Proper names | Accept: Fregean |
| Properties | Accept: nonexistent |
| Propositional attitudes | Lean towards: dispositional |
| Propositions | Accept: nonexistent |
| Quantum mechanics | Accept an alternative view: modal |
| Race | Accept: biological |
| Race categories | Accept: eliminate |
| Rational disagreement | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Accept an alternative view: issue is senseless |
| Science | Accept an alternative view: Too complex to enter here. |
| Semantic content | Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate) |
| Sleeping beauty | Agnostic/undecided |
| Spacetime | Accept: relationism |
| Statue and lump | Accept: one thing |
| Teletransporter | Accept: death |
| Temporal ontology | Accept an alternative view: Dummett |
| Theory of reference | Lean towards: causal |
| Time | Accept: A-theory |
| Time travel | Accept an alternative view: No such thing as metaphysical possibility |
| Trolley problem | Accept: switch |
| True contradictions | Accept: impossible |
| Truth | Accept an alternative view: Dummett's anti-realism |
| Units of selection | Accept an alternative view: multiple levels including groups |
| Vagueness | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Values in science | Accept: necessarily value-free |
| Well-being | Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism |
| Wittgenstein | Accept an alternative view: hate them both |
| Zombies | There is no fact of the matter |