Tyler John

Longview Philanthropy

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Accept: pleasure
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy There is no fact of the matter
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject cosmological
  • Reject moral
  • Lean towards pragmatic
  • Lean against design
  • Reject ontological
Belief or credence Accept: neither
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation There is no fact of the matter
Chinese room The question is too unclear to answer
Concepts The question is too unclear to answer
Consciousness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject identity theory
  • Reject dualism
  • Reject panpsychism
  • Lean towards eliminativism
  • Lean against functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification There is no fact of the matter
Experience machine Accept: yes
Extended mind Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards yes
  • Reject no
  • Lean against There is no fact of the matter
External world Lean towards: skepticism
Footbridge Accept: push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will The question is too unclear to answer
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Lean towards: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: interpretational
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Accept: permissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality The question is too unclear to answer
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Justification Accept: coherentism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition There is no fact of the matter
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading There is no fact of the matter
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards constructivism
  • Lean against expressivism
  • Reject non-naturalism
  • Lean against error theory
  • Reject naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts There is no fact of the matter
Normative ethics Accept: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Accept future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards representationalism
  • Reject sense-datum theory
  • Reject qualia theory
  • Lean against disjunctivism
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: none
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual analysis
  • Reject intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics The question is too unclear to answer
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Properties There is no fact of the matter
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: nonexistent
Propositions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards pragmatic
  • Lean against semantic externalist
  • Reject dogmatist
  • Reject epistemic externalist
  • Reject contextualist
  • Lean against abductive
Science Accept: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime There is no fact of the matter
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology There is no fact of the matter
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time There is no fact of the matter
Time travel There is no fact of the matter
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth The question is too unclear to answer
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject metaphysically possible
  • Lean towards conceivable but not metaphysically possible
  • Lean against inconceivable