My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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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 |