Soo Lam Wong

Singapore University of Social Sciences

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept: pleasure
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Causation Accept: process/production
Consciousness Accept: functionalism
Experience machine Accept: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
God Lean towards: atheism
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: realization
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Material composition Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Meta-ethics Accept an alternative view: Morality: constructivism
Metaontology Accept: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Morality Accept: constructivism
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: socialism
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Proper names Accept: Fregean
Properties Accept: tropes
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Accept: hedonism/experientialism
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible