My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against happiness
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards wisdom
  • Neutral towards goodness/justice
  • Accept understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Belief or credence Agnostic/undecided
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Agnostic/undecided
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Logic There is no fact of the matter
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Agnostic/undecided
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject naturalist realism
  • Lean towards constructivism
  • Neutral towards non-naturalism
  • Lean towards expressivism
  • Reject error theory
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Lean against particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards libertarianism
  • Reject communitarianism
  • Accept egalitarianism
Politics Accept an alternative view: property owning democracy
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Lean towards: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Lean towards: social
Race categories Accept an alternative view: revise for now, eliminate later
Rational disagreement Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Agnostic/undecided
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
True contradictions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Agnostic/undecided
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being There is no fact of the matter
Wittgenstein Agnostic/undecided
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible