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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind
Metaphysics of Mind
Mental Actions
Mental States and Processes
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Skills
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Areas of Interest
Epistemology
Philosophy of Biology
Teleology and Function
Biomedical Ethics
Disability and Well-Being

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards other analysis
  • Neutral towards justified true belief
  • Reject no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject design
  • Reject moral
  • Reject ontological
Belief or credence Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards push
  • Lean against don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Agnostic/undecided
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards unreal
  • Lean towards social
  • Reject biological
  • Lean towards psychological
Gender categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
God Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards causal/teleological
  • Lean against phenomenal
  • Neutral towards primitive
  • Lean against interpretational
  • Lean towards inferential
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards rationalism
  • Lean towards empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Humean
  • Neutral towards non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards reasons
  • Neutral towards fit
  • Lean towards value
  • Lean towards ought
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: disjunctivism
Personal identity Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Aristotelian
  • Lean against Humean
  • Lean towards Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: contextualist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Lean towards: one-third
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: growing block
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Agnostic/undecided
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Agnostic/undecided
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards late
  • Lean towards early
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible