My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| 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 |