My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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A priori knowledge | Accept: yes |
Abortion | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Abstract objects |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Aesthetic experience | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Aesthetic value | Accept an alternative view: transcendental aesthetics |
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: credence |
Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
Causation | Accept an alternative view: well-ordering (in the rigorous mathematical meaning) in a "temporal screen" and relative to free will |
Chinese room | Accept an alternative view: "A quantum computer in a Chinese room" (my paper) |
Concepts | Accept an alternative view: mathematical structures or "numbers" in the final analysis |
Consciousness |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Continuum hypothesis | Accept: determinate |
Cosmological fine-tuning | Accept: brute fact |
Eating animals and animal products | Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes) |
Environmental ethics | Accept: non-anthropocentric |
Epistemic justification |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Experience machine | Accept an alternative view: The dilemma is valid under additional conditions and they are not valid (admissible) |
Extended mind | Accept: yes |
External world | Accept an alternative view: neo-Pythagorean transcendentalism |
Footbridge | Accept: don't push |
Foundations of mathematics | Accept an alternative view: Hilbert arithmetic (as introduced and justified by me) |
Free will |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Gender |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Gender categories | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
God | Accept an alternative view: Depends on the definition of "God": I mean "theology as a rigorous science" similarly to "philosophy as a rigorous science". |
Grounds of intentionality | Accept: phenomenal |
Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: no |
Human genetic engineering | Accept: permissible |
Hume | Accept: skeptic |
Immortality | Accept: yes |
Interlevel metaphysics |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Justification | Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism |
Kant | Accept: one world |
Knowledge | Accept an alternative view: Both empirism and rationalism as a synthesis of science and metaphysics (together with mathematics) |
Knowledge claims | Accept: invariantism |
Law | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Laws of nature | Accept an alternative view: Synthetic apriori: inferrable as analythic in the final analysis (i.e. as logical tautologies) |
Logic | Accept: classical |
Material composition | Accept: universalism |
Meaning of life | Accept: objective |
Mental content | Accept an alternative view: transcendentalism |
Meta-ethics | Accept an alternative view: moral transcendentalism |
Metaontology | Accept an alternative view: Pythagoreanism (mathematical realism) |
Metaphilosophy | Accept an alternative view: metaphilosophy should synthesize non-naturalism and naturalism |
Method in history of philosophy | Accept an alternative view: Heidegger's hermeneutics |
Method in political philosophy | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Mind | Accept: physicalism |
Mind uploading | Agnostic/undecided |
Moral judgment | Accept: cognitivism |
Moral motivation | Accept an alternative view: transcendentalism |
Moral principles | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Morality | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Newcomb's problem | Accept an alternative view: The problem is incorrected defined: in fact, it defines a bit of information as the totality |
Normative concepts | Accept: reasons |
Normative ethics | Accept: virtue ethics |
Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Ought implies can | Accept: no |
Perceptual experience | Accept: representationalism |
Personal identity | Accept an alternative view: Personal identity is an empirical counterpart of the identity of the totality |
Philosophical knowledge | Accept: a lot |
Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Philosophical progress | Accept: a lot |
Plato | Accept an alternative view: Syntesizing both |
Political philosophy | Accept: libertarianism |
Politics | Accept: capitalism |
Possible worlds | Accept an alternative view: the viewpoint of quantum mechanics |
Practical reason | Accept: Kantian |
Principle of sufficient reason | Accept: true |
Proper names | Accept: Fregean |
Properties | Accept: classes |
Propositional attitudes | Accept: representational |
Propositions | Accept: sets |
Quantum mechanics | Accept an alternative view: quantum information |
Race | Accept: biological |
Race categories | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Rational disagreement | Accept: permissivism |
Response to external-world skepticism | Accept an alternative view: Kant's "Copernican Revolution" of transcendentalism |
Science | Accept an alternative view: Both realism and anti-realism |
Semantic content | Accept: radical contextualism (most or all) |
Sleeping beauty | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Spacetime | Accept an alternative view: Spacetine a screen, to which the universal quantum informantion ("behind the screen") is projected (the Standard model describes the screen). |
Statue and lump | Accept: two things |
Teletransporter | Accept an alternative view: Dead-and-alive teletranspoorter as "Schroedinger's cat" |
Temporal ontology | Accept an alternative view: transcendentalism after which temporal ontology is a "screen ontology". |
Theory of reference | Accept an alternative view: Dual (complete or mutual) reference |
Time |
Accept a combination of answers:
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Time travel | Accept: metaphysically impossible |
Trolley problem | Accept an alternative view: The problem is not philosophical: any solution depends on additional circumstances availbale only in a real situation |
True contradictions | Accept an alternative view: true contradictions are formally and logically representable in terms of information |
Truth | Lean towards: epistemic |
Units of selection | Accept an alternative view: Each of both can dominate under additional conditions. |
Vagueness | Accept: metaphysical |
Values in science | Accept: can be either |
Well-being | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
Wittgenstein | Accept: early |
Zombies | Accept an alternative view: The problem is not philosophical |