My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept: sui generis
Aesthetic value Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism There is no fact of the matter
Belief or credence Agnostic/undecided
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Lean towards: yes
Extended mind Insufficiently familiar with the issue
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Agnostic/undecided
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: biological
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Accept: skeptic
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaontology Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Neutral towards cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Lean against particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Neutral towards current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Accept: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Lean towards: classes
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: unreal
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: minimalism (no more than a few)
Sleeping beauty The question is too unclear to answer
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump The question is too unclear to answer
Teletransporter Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Skipped
True contradictions Agnostic/undecided
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Insufficiently familiar with the issue