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William C. Bausman

University of Zürich
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Accept: perception
Aesthetic value Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Accept happiness
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: pragmatic
Belief or credence Accept: belief
Capital punishment Lean towards: permissible
Causation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept counterfactual/difference-making
  • Accept process/production
  • Reject primitive
  • Reject nonexistent
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis Accept: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine Lean towards: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge There is no fact of the matter
Foundations of mathematics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept set-theoretic
  • Accept formalism
  • Accept constructivism/intuitionism
  • Accept logicism
  • Accept structuralism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Accept: naturalist
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Accept: one world
Knowledge Accept an alternative view: pragmatism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal positivism
Laws of nature There is no fact of the matter
Logic Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept non-classical
  • Accept classical
Material composition Lean towards: nihilism
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept contextual/historicist
  • Accept analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Lean towards: ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral particularism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Accept: one box
Normative concepts Accept: fit
Normative ethics Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean against linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Accept: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Lean towards: communitarianism
Politics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards capitalism
  • Lean towards socialism
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Accept: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: true
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties There is no fact of the matter
Propositional attitudes Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions There is no fact of the matter
Quantum mechanics Accept: collapse
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept social
  • Accept biological
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: pragmatic
Science Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Accept: death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Accept: descriptive
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Accept: deflationary
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept genes
  • Accept organisms
Vagueness Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept semantic
  • Accept epistemic
  • Accept metaphysical
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible