My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: pleasure
Aesthetic value Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept objective
  • Accept subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards goodness/justice
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept happiness
Analysis of knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: cosmological
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:
  • Accept identity theory
  • Reject panpsychism
  • Reject dualism
  • Accept functionalism
  • Reject eliminativism
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 Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept naturalist
  • Accept skeptic
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:
  • Accept empiricism
  • Accept rationalism
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 Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept contextual/historicist
  • Accept analytic/rational reconstruction
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:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
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:
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
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:
  • Reject dogmatist
  • Lean towards epistemic externalist
  • Accept pragmatic
  • Neutral towards contextualist
  • Lean towards semantic externalist
  • Accept abductive
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:
  • Accept desire satisfaction
  • Accept objective list
  • Accept hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept: inconceivable