My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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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 |