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Susan Lindquist

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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Abortion The question is too unclear to answer
Abstract objects The question is too unclear to answer
Aesthetic experience Accept: perception
Aesthetic value The question is too unclear to answer
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Arguments for theism Accept: ontological
Belief or credence Accept: neither
Capital punishment Accept: permissible
Causation There is no fact of the matter
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness The question is too unclear to answer
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: 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 Lean towards: formalism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories The question is too unclear to answer
God The question is too unclear to answer
Grounds of intentionality The question is too unclear to answer
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards skeptic
  • Neutral towards naturalist
Immortality The question is too unclear to answer
Interlevel metaphysics The question is too unclear to answer
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against one world
  • Reject two worlds
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Logic Accept an alternative view: Pluralism
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics The question is too unclear to answer
Metaontology The question is too unclear to answer
Metaphilosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject naturalism
  • Neutral towards non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Mind The question is too unclear to answer
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: internalism
Moral principles Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards ought
  • Reject value
  • Reject fit
  • Lean towards reasons
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Accept worms
  • Neutral towards plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: disjunctivism
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
  • Reject experimental philosophy
  • Reject conceptual analysis
  • Reject conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress The question is too unclear to answer
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds The question is too unclear to answer
Practical reason Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Aristotelian
  • Lean towards Kantian
  • Reject Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Fregean
Properties Accept: nonexistent
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Accept: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards hidden-variables
  • Reject many-worlds
  • Lean towards epistemic
  • Neutral towards collapse
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement There is no fact of the matter
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: semantic externalist
Science Accept: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime The question is too unclear to answer
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology The question is too unclear to answer
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem There is no fact of the matter
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against deflationary
  • Reject epistemic
  • Reject correspondence
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept genes
  • Accept organisms
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept epistemic
  • Lean towards metaphysical
  • Accept semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being The question is too unclear to answer
Wittgenstein Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept early
  • Accept late
Zombies The question is too unclear to answer