My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Aim of philosophy: truth/knowledge
  • Accept Aim of philosophy: understanding
  • Lean towards Aim of philosophy: wisdom
  • Neutral towards Aim of philosophy: happiness
  • Lean towards Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Arguments for theism: cosmological
  • Lean against Arguments for theism: design
  • Lean against Arguments for theism: ontological
  • Reject Arguments for theism: pragmatic
  • Reject Arguments for theism: moral
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Environmental ethics Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Accept an alternative view: Yes to a limited period and yes if life otherwise is unbearable in case of poverty, disease, constant frustrations, etc.
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: set-theoretic
Free will Lean towards: no free will
Gender Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Gender: biological
  • Accept Gender: psychological
  • Lean against Gender: social
  • Reject Gender: unreal
Gender categories Lean towards: preserve
God Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Agnostic/undecided
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Accept: supervenience
Justification Lean towards: infinitism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Logic: classical
  • Lean towards Logic: non-classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Lean towards: nonexistent
Mental content Agnostic/undecided
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Agnostic/undecided
Method in history of philosophy Agnostic/undecided
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind Agnostic/undecided
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Agnostic/undecided
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Normative ethics: deontology
  • Lean towards Normative ethics: consequentialism
  • Neutral towards Normative ethics: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Other minds: adult humans
  • Accept Other minds: cats
  • Lean towards Other minds: fish
  • Lean towards Other minds: flies
  • Lean towards Other minds: worms
  • Neutral towards Other minds: plants
  • Reject Other minds: particles
  • Lean towards Other minds: newborn babies
  • Lean against Other minds: current AI systems
  • Neutral towards Other minds: future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Lean towards: qualia theory
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards Philosophical methods: linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Lean towards: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against Political philosophy: communitarianism
  • Lean towards Political philosophy: egalitarianism
  • Neutral towards Political philosophy: libertarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Agnostic/undecided
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Accept: Fregean
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Race: biological
  • Lean towards Race: social
  • Reject Race: unreal
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: contextualist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty There is no fact of the matter
Spacetime Accept: relationism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Agnostic/undecided
Temporal ontology Lean towards: presentism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
True contradictions Lean towards: actual
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Agnostic/undecided
Vagueness Lean towards: epistemic
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-free
Well-being Agnostic/undecided
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible