My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: pleasure
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards understanding
  • Lean towards truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
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: process/production
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products There is no fact of the matter
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: yes
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge The question is too unclear to answer
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Lean towards: libertarianism
Gender Lean towards: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics Accept an alternative view: Emergence
Justification Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Agnostic/undecided
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Accept an alternative view: Two-dimensionalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: libertarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Lean towards: tropes
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Lean towards: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Lean towards: biological
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: presentism
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Agnostic/undecided
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible