My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: cosmological
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Agnostic/undecided
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge There is no fact of the matter
Free will Agnostic/undecided
Gender Lean towards: psychological
God Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Skipped
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept an alternative view: Accept anatta and sunyata. So question does not apply.
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards empiricism
  • Lean towards rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept an alternative view: Expressivist about knowledge claims
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept an alternative view: I am an expressivist about logic.
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Lean towards: nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept an alternative view: View combining cognitive expressivism and realism about moral facts
Metaontology Accept an alternative view: Metaphysical emptiness (sunyata)
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Accept an alternative view: Cognitive expressivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Accept: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject ought
  • Reject value
  • Reject reasons
  • Reject fit
Normative ethics Agnostic/undecided
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Neutral towards plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: qualia theory
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against formal philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept an alternative view: Reject possible worlds in any form
Practical reason Agnostic/undecided
Proper names Accept an alternative view: Global expressivist conception
Properties Accept an alternative view: Nagarjuna's Sunyata: there are properties but they have no metaphysical nature
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Accept: sets
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: revise
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Accept an alternative view: Transit Metaphysics (Not well known)
Time Accept: A-theory
Trolley problem There is no fact of the matter
True contradictions Lean towards: actual
Truth Accept an alternative view: Expressivism about truth
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible