My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Lean towards: yes |
| Abortion | Accept: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Accept: nominalism |
| Aesthetic experience | Lean towards: perception |
| Aesthetic value | Lean towards: subjective |
| Aim of philosophy | Lean towards: understanding |
| Analysis of knowledge | Agnostic/undecided |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Lean towards: yes |
| Arguments for theism | Lean towards: cosmological |
| Belief or credence | Lean towards: neither |
| Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
| Causation | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Chinese room | Accept: doesn't understand |
| Concepts | Lean towards: empiricism |
| Consciousness | Lean towards: functionalism |
| Continuum hypothesis | Agnostic/undecided |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Lean towards: brute fact |
| Eating animals and animal products | Accept: veganism (no and no) |
| Environmental ethics | Lean towards: non-anthropocentric |
| Epistemic justification | Accept: externalism |
| Experience machine | Accept: no |
| Extended mind | Accept: yes |
| External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Agnostic/undecided |
| Foundations of mathematics | Lean towards: structuralism |
| Free will | Accept: compatibilism |
| Gender | Lean towards: social |
| Gender categories | Lean towards: revise |
| God | Accept: atheism |
| Grounds of intentionality |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Hard problem of consciousness | Lean towards: yes |
| Human genetic engineering | Lean towards: permissible |
| Hume | Lean towards: skeptic |
| Immortality | Lean towards: yes |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Accept: grounding |
| Justification | Lean towards: reliabilism |
| Kant | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Knowledge | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Knowledge claims | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Law | Accept: legal positivism |
| Laws of nature | Lean towards: Humean |
| Logic | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Material composition | Accept: universalism |
| Meaning of life | Accept: nonexistent |
| Mental content | Accept: externalism |
| Meta-ethics | Lean towards: moral anti-realism |
| Metaontology | Lean towards: heavyweight realism |
| Metaphilosophy | Accept: naturalism |
| Method in history of philosophy | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Method in political philosophy | Agnostic/undecided |
| Mind | Accept: physicalism |
| Mind uploading | Lean towards: death |
| Moral judgment | Lean towards: cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Lean towards: externalism |
| Moral principles | Lean towards: moral generalism |
| Morality | Accept an alternative view: Conventionalism |
| Newcomb's problem | Accept: one box |
| Normative concepts | Agnostic/undecided |
| Normative ethics | Lean towards: consequentialism |
| Other minds | Agnostic/undecided |
| Ought implies can | Accept: no |
| Perceptual experience | Lean towards: representationalism |
| Personal identity | Accept an alternative view: Some form of conventionalism about the conditions for personal identity (which may be de facto fairly close to the psychological view). |
| Philosophical knowledge | Lean towards: a little |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Lean towards: a little |
| Plato | Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things |
| Political philosophy | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Politics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Possible worlds | Lean towards: nonexistent |
| Practical reason | Lean towards: Humean |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Accept: false |
| Proper names | Lean towards: Millian |
| Properties | Accept: immanent universals |
| Propositional attitudes | Lean towards: representational |
| Propositions | Accept an alternative view: I've defended a view on which there are only atomic propositions. But those are probably structured. |
| Quantum mechanics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Race | Lean towards: social |
| Race categories | Lean towards: revise |
| Rational disagreement | Lean towards: permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Lean towards: epistemic externalist |
| Science | Lean towards: scientific realism |
| Semantic content | Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate) |
| Sleeping beauty | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Spacetime | Lean towards: relationism |
| Statue and lump | Lean towards: two things |
| Teletransporter | Lean towards: survival |
| Temporal ontology | Lean towards: eternalism |
| Theory of reference | Lean towards: causal |
| Time | Lean towards: B-theory |
| Time travel | Agnostic/undecided |
| Trolley problem | Lean towards: switch |
| True contradictions | Lean towards: actual |
| Truth | Lean towards: deflationary |
| Units of selection | Accept an alternative view: Some kind of multi-level selection view. |
| Vagueness |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Values in science | Lean towards: necessarily value-laden |
| Well-being | Lean towards: desire satisfaction |
| Wittgenstein | Agnostic/undecided |
| Zombies | Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible |