My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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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 |