My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion The question is too unclear to answer
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience The question is too unclear to answer
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: cosmological
Belief or credence Accept: belief
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: primitive
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Other
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Other
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept: logicism
Free will Accept: libertarianism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: eliminate
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: inferential
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Accept: one world
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Material composition Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean against fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience Accept: disjunctivism
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Reject experimental philosophy
  • Reject conceptual engineering
  • Reject empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept an alternative view: Socialism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Accept: tropes
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Lean towards: acts
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: hidden-variables
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: semantic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Accept: presentism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: don't switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Lean towards: epistemic
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Accept: inconceivable