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David Elohim

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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Accept: pleasure
Aesthetic value Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept subjective
  • Accept objective
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: cosmological
Belief or credence Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Belief or credence: belief
  • Accept Belief or credence: credence
Capital punishment Accept: permissible
Causation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Counterfactual/difference-making theories of causation
  • Accept Process/production theories of causation
  • Accept Primitivist theories of causation
  • Reject Eliminativism about causation
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept nativism
  • Accept empiricism
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Dualism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Reject Eliminativism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Reject Functionalism about phenomenal consciousness
  • Reject Type-identity theories of phenomenal consciousness
  • Accept Panpsychism about consciousness
Continuum hypothesis Accept: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: design
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Internalism about justification
  • Accept Externalism about justification
Experience machine Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept I would enter the experience machine
  • Accept I would not enter the experience machine
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: set-theoretic
Free will Accept: libertarianism
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Gender is biological
  • Accept Gender is psychological
  • Accept Gender is social
  • Reject Gender is unreal
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: phenomenal
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept skeptic
  • Accept naturalist
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards supervenience
  • Accept grounding
  • Accept realization
  • Accept identity
Justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Nonreliabilist foundationalism about justification
  • Accept Infinitism about justification
  • Accept Reliabilism about justification
  • Lean towards Coherentism about justification
Kant Accept: one world
Knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept rationalism
  • Accept empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Classical view of logic
  • Accept Non-classical view of logic
Material composition Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept externalism
  • Accept internalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept I prefer a method of analytic/rational reconstruction in history of philosophy
  • Accept I prefer a contextual/historicist method in history of philosophy
Method in political philosophy Accept: ideal theory
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: survival
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Accept: value
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards deontology
  • Lean towards virtue ethics
  • Lean towards consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Adult humans are conscious
  • Accept Cats are conscious
  • Accept Fish are conscious
  • Accept Flies are conscious
  • Accept Worms are conscious
  • Lean against Plants are conscious
  • Reject Particles are conscious
  • Accept Newborn babies are conscious
  • Lean against Current AI systems are conscious
  • Lean against Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept representationalism
  • Accept qualia theory
Personal identity Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Biological views of personal identity
  • Accept Further-fact views of personal identity
  • Accept Psychological views of personal identity
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Reject Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Communitarianism in political philosophy
  • Lean towards Egalitarianism in political philosophy
  • Lean towards Libertarianism in political philosophy
Politics Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds Accept an alternative view: Following Williamson, I take possibilia to be neither abstract nor concrete. Abstracta are necessarily non-concrete and possibilia are contingently non-concrete.
Practical reason Lean towards: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: true
Proper names Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Fregean views of names
  • Accept Millian views of names
Properties Accept: classes
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Lean towards: sets
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: many-worlds
Race Accept: social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: abductive
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Accept: substantivalism
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Temporal ontology Accept: growing block
Theory of reference Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Causal theories of reference
  • Accept Descriptive theories of reference
  • Reject Deflationary theories of reference
Time Accept: A-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept: organisms
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept metaphysical
  • Accept semantic
  • Accept epistemic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept desire satisfaction
  • Lean against objective list
  • Accept hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Accept: early
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible