My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Accept: yes |
| Abortion | Lean towards: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Lean towards: nominalism |
| Aesthetic experience | Lean towards: sui generis |
| Aesthetic value | Lean towards: objective |
| Aim of philosophy | Lean towards: understanding |
| Analysis of knowledge | Lean towards: no analysis |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Arguments for theism | Accept an alternative view: All are equally worthless. |
| Belief or credence | Lean towards: credence |
| Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
| Causation | Accept: primitive |
| Chinese room | Accept: doesn't understand |
| Concepts |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Consciousness | Lean towards: panpsychism |
| Continuum hypothesis | Lean towards: indeterminate |
| Cosmological fine-tuning | Accept an alternative view: Idealism |
| Eating animals and animal products | Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes) |
| Environmental ethics | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Epistemic justification | Lean towards: internalism |
| Experience machine | Accept: no |
| Extended mind | Accept an alternative view: Does this question make sense if you're an idealist? |
| External world | Lean towards: idealism |
| Footbridge | There is no fact of the matter |
| Foundations of mathematics |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Free will | Accept an alternative view: Free will exists, but it requires the present state of the world to be not fully determinate |
| Gender | Lean towards: social |
| Gender categories | Lean towards: revise |
| God |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Grounds of intentionality | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Hard problem of consciousness | Accept: yes |
| Human genetic engineering | Lean towards: permissible |
| Hume | Accept: skeptic |
| Immortality | Accept an alternative view: Immortality is impossible, since personal identity cannot be stretched over arbitrarily long times. |
| Interlevel metaphysics | Agnostic/undecided |
| Justification | Accept: coherentism |
| Kant | Lean towards: one world |
| Knowledge | Accept an alternative view: Kantianism |
| Knowledge claims | Agnostic/undecided |
| Law | Lean towards: legal positivism |
| Laws of nature | Accept: non-Humean |
| Logic | There is no fact of the matter |
| Material composition | Lean towards: restrictivism |
| Meaning of life |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Mental content | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Meta-ethics | Agnostic/undecided |
| Metaontology | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Metaphilosophy | Accept: non-naturalism |
| Method in history of philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Method in political philosophy | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Mind | Accept: non-physicalism |
| Mind uploading | Accept: death |
| Moral judgment | Agnostic/undecided |
| Moral motivation | Lean towards: internalism |
| Moral principles | Accept: moral particularism |
| Morality | Agnostic/undecided |
| Newcomb's problem | Lean towards: one box |
| Normative concepts | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Normative ethics | Lean towards: virtue ethics |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Ought implies can | Lean towards: no |
| Perceptual experience | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Personal identity | There is no fact of the matter |
| Philosophical knowledge | Accept: a lot |
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Philosophical progress | Lean towards: a lot |
| Plato | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Political philosophy | Lean towards: egalitarianism |
| Politics | Accept: socialism |
| Possible worlds | Accept: nonexistent |
| Practical reason | Lean towards: Aristotelian |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Lean towards: false |
| Proper names | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Properties | Agnostic/undecided |
| Propositional attitudes | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Propositions | Lean towards: acts |
| Quantum mechanics | Accept an alternative view: anti-realism |
| Race | Accept: social |
| Race categories | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Rational disagreement | Accept: permissivism |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Accept an alternative view: Kantian |
| Science |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Semantic content | Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all) |
| Sleeping beauty | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Spacetime | Accept: relationism |
| Statue and lump | There is no fact of the matter |
| Teletransporter | There is no fact of the matter |
| Temporal ontology | Accept: presentism |
| Theory of reference | Lean towards: deflationary |
| Time | Accept: A-theory |
| Time travel | Accept: metaphysically impossible |
| Trolley problem | There is no fact of the matter |
| True contradictions | Lean towards: actual |
| Truth | Accept an alternative view: Normative: the true is what one ought to believe |
| Units of selection | Agnostic/undecided |
| Vagueness | Lean towards: semantic |
| Values in science | Accept: necessarily value-laden |
| Well-being | Lean towards: objective list |
| Wittgenstein | Lean towards: late |
| Zombies | Agnostic/undecided |