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Areas of Specialization
Philosophical Traditions
Areas of Interest
Philosophical Traditions

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept an alternative view: a practice, way of life
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism Accept an alternative view: None is strongest
Belief or credence Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Lean towards: nonexistent
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Agnostic/undecided
Consciousness Accept: panpsychism
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: yes
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Lean towards: skepticism
Footbridge Agnostic/undecided
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Lean towards: psychological
Gender categories Accept: eliminate
God Accept an alternative view: pantheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: interpretational
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality Accept an alternative view: not as separate self
Interlevel metaphysics Accept an alternative view: None is strongest
Justification Accept an alternative view: existential (different than 'subjective')
Kant Accept: two worlds
Knowledge Accept an alternative view: intersubjective
Knowledge claims Accept: relativism
Law Accept an alternative view: Hybridism/pluralism
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition Lean towards: nihilism
Meaning of life Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject objective
  • Lean towards subjective
  • Lean towards nonexistent
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Lean towards: anti-realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading Accept an alternative view: Accept both as continuous development
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral particularism
Morality Lean towards: constructivism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts Lean towards: fit
Normative ethics Accept an alternative view: knowledge is a stone-age concept and should be eliminated (generally sympathetic to contextualism in other areas)
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean towards fish
  • Lean towards flies
  • Lean towards worms
  • Lean towards plants
  • Lean towards particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Lean towards current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Accept an alternative view: Nondualist Enactivism
Personal identity Lean towards: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean against formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: concrete
Practical reason Accept an alternative view: Skepticism
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Lean towards: nonexistent
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: nonexistent
Propositions Lean towards: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: many-worlds
Race Accept: unreal
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: pragmatic
Science Lean towards: scientific anti-realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards survival
  • Lean towards death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: deflationary
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Agnostic/undecided
True contradictions Accept: actual
Truth Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection Accept: organisms
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards metaphysical
  • Lean against epistemic
  • Lean towards semantic
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Accept an alternative view: Accept both as continuous development
Zombies Lean towards: metaphysically possible