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Stefan Sciaraffa

McMaster University
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University of Arizona
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2007
Homepage
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics
Normative Ethics
Philosophy of Law
Social and Political Philosophy

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Reject happiness
  • Accept wisdom
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Lean towards: pragmatic
Eating animals and animal products Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject veganism (no and no)
  • Reject vegetarianism (no and yes)
  • Accept omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Experience machine Accept: no
External world The question is too unclear to answer
Footbridge The question is too unclear to answer
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject unreal
  • Accept social
  • Reject biological
  • Accept psychological
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: interpretational
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Accept an alternative view: discursive context matters--it varies between contexts
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics The question is too unclear to answer
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Mind Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept deontology
  • Reject consequentialism
  • Accept virtue ethics
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Reject conceptual engineering
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Possible worlds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept abstract
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Reject concrete
Proper names Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Millian
  • Accept Fregean
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science The question is too unclear to answer
Teletransporter Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem The question is too unclear to answer
Truth Accept: deflationary
Vagueness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Zombies Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject conceivable but not metaphysically possible
  • Reject inconceivable
  • Reject metaphysically possible