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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| Normative ethics | Lean towards: deontology |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Ought implies can | Accept: yes |
| Perceptual experience |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Personal identity | Lean towards: further-fact view |
| Philosophical knowledge | Lean towards: a little |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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 |