My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
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| A priori knowledge | Accept: yes |
| Abortion | Accept: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Accept: nominalism |
| Aesthetic experience | Lean towards: pleasure |
| Aesthetic value |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Aim of philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Analysis of knowledge | Agnostic/undecided |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Lean towards: yes |
| Arguments for theism |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Belief or credence | Lean towards: credence |
| Capital punishment | Lean towards: permissible |
| Causation | Lean towards: primitive |
| Chinese room | Accept: doesn't understand |
| Concepts | Lean towards: empiricism |
| Consciousness |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Continuum hypothesis | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Lean towards: multiverse |
| Eating animals and animal products | Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes) |
| Environmental ethics | Lean towards: non-anthropocentric |
| Epistemic justification | Lean towards: externalism |
| Experience machine | Accept: no |
| Extended mind | Accept: yes |
| External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Accept: don't push |
| Foundations of mathematics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Free will | Accept: compatibilism |
| Gender | Lean towards: biological |
| Gender categories | The question is too unclear to answer |
| God | Accept: atheism |
| Grounds of intentionality | Lean towards: causal/teleological |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Lean towards: no |
| Human genetic engineering | Accept: permissible |
| Hume |
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| Immortality | Lean towards: yes |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Lean towards: realization |
| Justification | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Kant | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Knowledge |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Knowledge claims | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Law | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Laws of nature | Lean towards: non-Humean |
| Logic | Accept: classical |
| Material composition | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Meaning of life | Lean towards: subjective |
| Mental content | Accept: externalism |
| Meta-ethics | Lean towards: moral realism |
| Metaontology | Lean towards: heavyweight realism |
| Metaphilosophy | Accept: naturalism |
| Method in history of philosophy |
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| Method in political philosophy | Lean towards: non-ideal theory |
| Mind | Accept: physicalism |
| Mind uploading | Accept: death |
| Moral judgment | Lean towards: cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Lean towards: internalism |
| Moral principles | Lean towards: moral generalism |
| Morality | Lean towards: naturalist realism |
| Newcomb's problem | Accept: one box |
| Normative concepts | Agnostic/undecided |
| Normative ethics | Lean towards: consequentialism |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Ought implies can | Lean towards: yes |
| Perceptual experience | Accept: representationalism |
| Personal identity | Lean towards: biological view |
| Philosophical knowledge | Accept: a lot |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Accept: a lot |
| Plato | Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things |
| Political philosophy | Lean towards: egalitarianism |
| Politics | Lean towards: socialism |
| Possible worlds | Accept: nonexistent |
| Practical reason | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Accept: true |
| Proper names | Lean towards: Millian |
| Properties | Lean towards: tropes |
| Propositional attitudes | Accept: representational |
| Propositions | Lean towards: structured entities |
| Quantum mechanics | Accept: hidden-variables |
| Race | Lean towards: social |
| Race categories | Lean towards: preserve |
| Rational disagreement | Lean towards: non-permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Science | Accept: scientific realism |
| Semantic content | Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate) |
| Sleeping beauty | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Spacetime | Lean towards: substantivalism |
| Statue and lump | Lean towards: two things |
| Teletransporter | Accept: death |
| Temporal ontology | Lean towards: presentism |
| Theory of reference | Lean towards: causal |
| Time | Accept: A-theory |
| Time travel | Accept: metaphysically impossible |
| Trolley problem | Accept: switch |
| True contradictions | Lean towards: impossible |
| Truth | Lean towards: correspondence |
| Units of selection | Lean towards: genes |
| Vagueness | Lean towards: semantic |
| Values in science | Lean towards: can be either |
| Well-being |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Wittgenstein | Lean towards: late |
| Zombies | Accept: inconceivable |