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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| Philosophical progress | Accept: a lot |
| Plato | Accept: knowledge also of concrete things |
| Political philosophy | Lean towards: communitarianism |
| Politics |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| Vagueness |
Accept a combination of answers:
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| Values in science | Accept: necessarily value-laden |
| Well-being | Accept: hedonism/experientialism |
| Wittgenstein | Accept: late |
| Zombies | Accept: metaphysically possible |