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Shen-yi Liao

University of Puget Sound
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge There is no fact of the matter
Abstract objects There is no fact of the matter
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Analytic-synthetic distinction There is no fact of the matter
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject moral
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject pragmatic
  • Reject ontological
  • Reject design
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Continuum hypothesis Agnostic/undecided
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Epistemic justification There is no fact of the matter
Experience machine Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards social
  • Lean towards unreal
  • Reject psychological
  • Reject biological
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims There is no fact of the matter
Laws of nature Agnostic/undecided
Logic There is no fact of the matter
Meaning of life There is no fact of the matter
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology There is no fact of the matter
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment There is no fact of the matter
Moral motivation There is no fact of the matter
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress There is no fact of the matter
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Proper names There is no fact of the matter
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards unreal
  • Lean towards social
  • Reject biological
Science Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Theory of reference Agnostic/undecided
Time Accept: B-theory
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness There is no fact of the matter
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Zombies There is no fact of the matter