My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic value Accept an alternative view: It depends on what is being considered. Some things that are thought to have aesthetic value are purely subjective and others are purely objective and most, I think, are a combination of both.
Aim of philosophy Accept: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: cosmological
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Accept an alternative view: Since death is comparatively less bad than actual punishments that are, in principle, permissible it can be, in principle, permissible. However, it is impermissible in the current justice systems.
Causation Agnostic/undecided
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Agnostic/undecided
Consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Continuum hypothesis Agnostic/undecided
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Accept an alternative view: I accept that it would be prudentially best to enter, but in most ways of imagining the scenario, it would be immoral to enter. So I would not enter, though it would benefit me to do so.
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Agnostic/undecided
Free will Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Agnostic/undecided
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept an alternative view: Under certain conditions I would accept it for prudential reasons and I would reject it under other conditions for prudential reasons.
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept: invariantism
Law Accept an alternative view: The law has no independent normative force above and beyond prudential and moral reasons to act.
Laws of nature Agnostic/undecided
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Agnostic/undecided
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Agnostic/undecided
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept ideal theory
  • Accept non-ideal theory
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral particularism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject constructivism
  • Reject error theory
  • Reject expressivism
  • Lean towards non-naturalism
  • Lean towards naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Accept: reasons
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: These categories are too broad to capture differences in ethical theory. Every plausible normative ethical view could be accurately described as kinds of consequentialism, deontology, & virtue ethics.
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject communitarianism
  • Reject libertarianism
  • Reject egalitarianism
Politics Accept: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Kantian
  • Reject Humean
  • Reject Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Agnostic/undecided
Proper names Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Agnostic/undecided
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Other
Race categories Agnostic/undecided
Rational disagreement Accept: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Agnostic/undecided
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-third
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Accept an alternative view: This is a mere verbal dispute.
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Lean towards: growing block
Theory of reference Agnostic/undecided
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Agnostic/undecided
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept genes
  • Accept organisms
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards epistemic
  • Lean towards metaphysical
  • Accept semantic
Values in science The question is too unclear to answer
Well-being Accept: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible