My Survey Responses
| Survey Prompt | Response |
|---|---|
| A priori knowledge | Accept: yes |
| Abortion | Accept: permissible |
| Abstract objects | Accept: Platonism |
| Aesthetic experience | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Aesthetic value | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Aim of philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Analysis of knowledge | Accept: justified true belief |
| Analytic-synthetic distinction | Accept: yes |
| Arguments for theism | Accept: ontological |
| Belief or credence | Accept: credence |
| Capital punishment | Accept: impermissible |
| Causation | Accept: counterfactual/difference-making |
| Chinese room | Accept: understands |
| Concepts | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Consciousness | There is no fact of the matter |
| Continuum hypothesis | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Cosmological fine-tuning |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Eating animals and animal products | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Environmental ethics | Accept: anthropocentric |
| Epistemic justification | Accept: externalism |
| Experience machine | Accept: no |
| Extended mind | There is no fact of the matter |
| External world | Accept: non-skeptical realism |
| Footbridge | Accept: don't push |
| Foundations of mathematics | Agnostic/undecided |
| Free will | Agnostic/undecided |
| Gender | Agnostic/undecided |
| Gender categories | Agnostic/undecided |
| God | Accept an alternative view: If by "atheism" you mean not believing in the possibility of concrete gods, I am an atheist. However, I wouldn't say that gods do not exist. There are plenty in the latest Marvel movie. |
| Grounds of intentionality | Accept: primitive |
| Hard problem of consciousness | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Human genetic engineering | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Hume | Accept: skeptic |
| Immortality | Accept: yes |
| Interlevel metaphysics | There is no fact of the matter |
| Justification | Accept: coherentism |
| Kant | Accept: one world |
| Knowledge |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Knowledge claims | Agnostic/undecided |
| Law | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Laws of nature | Agnostic/undecided |
| Logic |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Material composition | Accept: universalism |
| Meaning of life | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Mental content |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Meta-ethics | Accept an alternative view: something like Balaguer's view |
| Metaontology | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Metaphilosophy | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Method in history of philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Method in political philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Mind | Agnostic/undecided |
| Mind uploading | There is no fact of the matter |
| Moral judgment | Accept: cognitivism |
| Moral motivation | Accept: internalism |
| Moral principles | Accept: moral generalism |
| Morality | Accept an alternative view: something like Balaguer\'s view |
| Newcomb's problem | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Normative concepts | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Normative ethics | Accept: consequentialism |
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Ought implies can | Accept: yes |
| 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 | Accept: a lot |
| Plato | Accept: knowledge only of forms |
| Political philosophy | Accept an alternative view: prioritarianism |
| Politics | Accept an alternative view: property-owning democracy |
| Possible worlds | Accept: abstract |
| Practical reason | Accept: Kantian |
| Principle of sufficient reason | Accept: false |
| Proper names | Accept: Fregean |
| Properties |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Propositional attitudes | Accept: representational |
| Propositions | Accept: structured entities |
| Quantum mechanics |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Race | Agnostic/undecided |
| Race categories | Agnostic/undecided |
| Rational disagreement | Insufficiently familiar with the issue |
| Response to external-world skepticism | Agnostic/undecided |
| Science | Accept an alternative view: my own recipe |
| Semantic content | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Sleeping beauty | Accept an alternative view: no probabilities without causality |
| Spacetime | Agnostic/undecided |
| 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 |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Time | Accept: A-theory |
| Time travel | Accept: metaphysically impossible |
| Trolley problem | Accept: don't switch |
| True contradictions | Accept: impossible |
| Truth | Accept an alternative view: I reject epistemic. I accept either deflationary or primitivist. Adding correspondence is a category mistake. |
| Units of selection | Accept an alternative view: my own recipe |
| Vagueness | Accept: semantic |
| Values in science | The question is too unclear to answer |
| Well-being | Accept an alternative view: essentialism |
| Wittgenstein | Agnostic/undecided |
| Zombies | There is no fact of the matter |