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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Skipped
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept wisdom
  • Neutral towards happiness
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: cosmological
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Accept: process/production
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts The question is too unclear to answer
Consciousness Accept: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Accept: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Accept an alternative view: Platonism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject unreal
  • Accept psychological
  • Accept social
  • Accept biological
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Skipped
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept skeptic
  • Accept naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: grounding
Justification The question is too unclear to answer
Kant Accept: two worlds
Knowledge The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Skipped
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept classical
  • Accept non-classical
Material composition Accept: universalism
Meaning of life The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Skipped
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept analytic/rational reconstruction
  • Accept contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Skipped
Morality Lean towards: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against fit
  • Accept ought
  • Accept reasons
  • Accept value
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept deontology
  • Reject consequentialism
  • Lean towards virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Accept flies
  • Accept worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Accept: qualia theory
Personal identity Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards further-fact view
  • Accept psychological view
  • Accept biological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept: communitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Lean towards: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Skipped
Propositions Accept: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Accept: hidden-variables
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept social
  • Accept biological
  • Neutral towards unreal
Race categories Accept: revise
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty There is no fact of the matter
Spacetime Accept: substantivalism
Statue and lump The question is too unclear to answer
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Accept an alternative view: Intrinsic temporal asymmetry
Theory of reference Accept: causal
Time The question is too unclear to answer
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept organisms
  • Accept genes
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-free
Well-being Skipped
Wittgenstein Skipped
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible