My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Lean towards: impermissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: design
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment Accept: permissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts The question is too unclear to answer
Consciousness Accept: dualism
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: design
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: grounding
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Accept: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards classical
  • Neutral towards non-classical
  • Accept logical pluralism
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept an alternative view: heavyweight realism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept moral generalism
  • Lean towards moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: constructivism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Accept: reasons
Normative ethics Agnostic/undecided
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Lean against particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Politics Agnostic/undecided
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against tropes
  • Lean towards transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards biological
  • Lean towards social
  • Lean against unreal
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Lean towards: one-third
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: growing block
Theory of reference Agnostic/undecided
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Agnostic/undecided
Well-being Agnostic/undecided
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible