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Tim Nailer

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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Lean towards goodness/justice
  • Lean towards happiness
  • Lean towards understanding
  • Lean towards wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against dualism
  • Neutral towards identity theory
  • Neutral towards functionalism
  • Lean against eliminativism
  • Lean against panpsychism
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against design
  • Neutral towards brute fact
  • Lean against no fine-tuning
  • Neutral towards multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Agnostic/undecided
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Free will Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards compatibilism
  • Lean against libertarianism
  • Lean towards no free will
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Gender: social
  • Lean towards Gender: psychological
  • Lean against Gender: biological
  • Neutral towards Gender: unreal
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Logic Lean towards: classical
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject anti-realism
  • Lean towards heavyweight realism
  • Lean towards deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards analytic/rational reconstruction
  • Lean towards contextual/historicist
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards death
  • Lean towards survival
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards deontology
  • Neutral towards virtue ethics
  • Lean towards consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Politics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards socialism
  • Lean towards capitalism
Possible worlds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards abstract
  • Neutral towards nonexistent
  • Reject concrete
Practical reason Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards Aristotelian
  • Lean against Humean
  • Neutral towards Kantian
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards biological
  • Lean against unreal
  • Lean towards social
Race categories Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards eliminate
  • Reject preserve
  • Lean towards revise
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Science Accept: scientific realism
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards survival
  • Lean towards death
Temporal ontology Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards eternalism
  • Neutral towards growing block
  • Reject presentism
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards organisms
  • Accept genes
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards hedonism/experientialism
  • Lean against objective list
  • Lean against desire satisfaction
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible