My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy The question is too unclear to answer
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Accept: pragmatic
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: understands
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Accept: naturalist
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic There is no fact of the matter
Material composition There is no fact of the matter
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Agnostic/undecided
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: survival
Moral judgment Agnostic/undecided
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Agnostic/undecided
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties Lean towards: tropes
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Lean towards: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: deflationary
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible