My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Agnostic/undecided
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept wisdom
  • Lean towards goodness/justice
  • Neutral towards happiness
  • Accept truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: cosmological
Belief or credence Accept: belief
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Accept: process/production
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness Skipped
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against no fine-tuning
  • Lean towards design
  • Neutral towards brute fact
  • Lean towards multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Lean towards: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: structuralism
Free will Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept libertarianism
  • Accept compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept an alternative view: Something explains the universe. Whether it is God depends on your conception of “God”.
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Lean towards: naturalist
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Lean towards: rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept non-classical
  • Accept classical
Material composition Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept an alternative view: The significance of life is objective. The purpose of life is subjective.
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Method in political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept ideal theory
  • Accept non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept an alternative view: Some form of realism about good. Some form of constructivism about right.
Newcomb's problem Accept an alternative view: 1 box if the predictor is infallible. 2 boxes of the predictor’s reliability is below a certain threshold.
Normative concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept value
  • Accept ought
Normative ethics Lean towards: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against sense-datum theory
  • Lean towards disjunctivism
  • Lean towards representationalism
  • Lean against qualia theory
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Accept formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics The question is too unclear to answer
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties The question is too unclear to answer
Propositional attitudes Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept representational
  • Accept phenomenal
  • Reject nonexistent
  • Accept dispositional
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: collapse
Race Accept: social
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept an alternative view: Deductively from self-evident premises
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-third
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Accept: one thing
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Accept: presentism
Theory of reference Lean towards: descriptive
Time Accept: A-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept organisms
  • Accept genes
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein Agnostic/undecided
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible