My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Lean towards: impermissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Truth/knowledge is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean towards Understanding is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean towards Wisdom is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean against Happiness is an important aim of philosophy
  • Lean towards Goodness/justice is an important aim of philosophy
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: ontological
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Internalism about justification
  • Neutral towards Externalism about justification
Experience machine Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: set-theoretic
Free will Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Compatibilism about free will
  • Lean towards Libertarianism about free will
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Gender is biological
  • Reject Gender is psychological
  • Neutral towards Gender is social
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Accept: theism
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: grounding
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Agnostic/undecided
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Agnostic/undecided
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Naturalism
  • Accept Non-naturalism
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Internalism about moral motivation
  • Reject Externalism about moral motivation
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Non-naturalism about morality
  • Neutral towards Constructivism about morality
  • Reject Expressivism about morality
  • Reject Error theory of morality
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Deontology
  • Accept Virtue ethics
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Communitarianism in political philosophy
  • Lean against Egalitarianism in political philosophy
  • Lean towards Libertarianism in political philosophy
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Race is biological
  • Reject Race is social
  • Lean towards Race is unreal
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept A dogmatist response to external-world skepticism is strongest
  • Lean towards A pragmatic response to external-world skepticism is strongest
Temporal ontology Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Presentism about time
  • Neutral towards Eternalism about time
  • Neutral towards Growing block view of time
Theory of reference Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Causal theories of reference
  • Lean towards Descriptive theories of reference
  • Reject Deflationary theories of reference
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-free
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Hedonism or experientialism about well-being
  • Lean against Desire satisfaction views of well-being
  • Accept Objective list views of well-being