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Philosophy of Action
Normative Ethics
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics
Meta-Ethics

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Accept an alternative view: Minimal Subjectivism
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Arguments for theism Skipped
Belief or credence Skipped
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Consciousness Skipped
Cosmological fine-tuning Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Skipped
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Skipped
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Skipped
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Skipped
Immortality Accept: yes
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: Deontic Consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Neutral towards current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
  • Accept The Universe
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean against formal philosophy
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept Relational Analysis (conceptual analysis cross-checked against multiple items in a framework or system)
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Skipped
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositional attitudes Skipped
Race Accept: social
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Skipped
Statue and lump Skipped
Teletransporter Accept: death
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: possible but non-actual
Truth Accept: epistemic
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards epistemic
  • Accept metaphysical
  • Lean towards semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: objective list
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible