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Tianshi Zhao

Northern Illinois University
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
Aim of philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: cosmological
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Panpsychism about consciousness
  • Lean towards property dualism
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Experience machine Accept an alternative view: Pragmatic yes
Footbridge Agnostic/undecided
Free will There is no fact of the matter
God Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Grounding is the most useful relation in interlevel metaphysics
  • Lean towards Identity is the most useful relation in interlevel metaphysics
  • Accept Realization is the most useful relation in interlevel metaphysics
Justification Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Material composition Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Nihilism about material composition
  • Neutral towards Restrictivism about material composition
  • Reject Universalism about material composition
Mental content Accept an alternative view: both!
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind The question is too unclear to answer
Moral judgment Accept an alternative view: hybrid
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Non-naturalism about morality
  • Neutral towards Naturalist realism about morality
  • Reject Constructivism about morality
  • Reject Expressivism about morality
  • Lean against Error theory of morality
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Philosophical methods Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Properties are immanent universals
  • Lean towards Properties are tropes
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards The statue and the lump are one thing
  • Lean against The statue and the lump are two things
  • Lean towards eliminativism: zero thing
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Hedonism or experientialism about well-being
  • Reject Desire satisfaction views of well-being
  • Neutral towards Objective list views of well-being
Zombies There is no fact of the matter