My Survey Responses
Survey Prompt | Response |
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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 | Agnostic/undecided |
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: externalism |
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 | There is no fact of the matter |
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 |