My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion The question is too unclear to answer
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Accept: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept an alternative view: Social
Aim of philosophy Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Accept: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Lean towards: pragmatic
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Causation Accept: primitive
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness Accept: identity theory
Continuum hypothesis Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: eliminate
God Lean towards: theism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: primitive
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality There is no fact of the matter
Interlevel metaphysics Agnostic/undecided
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Kant Accept: two worlds
Knowledge Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Lean towards: subjective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Accept an alternative view: Identical
Mind uploading Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: expressivism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Accept: reasons
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Reject particles
  • Neutral towards newborn babies
  • Lean against current AI systems
  • Lean against future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: disjunctivism
Personal identity Accept: further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Lean against intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean against empirical philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics There is no fact of the matter
Possible worlds Accept: concrete
Practical reason Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason Agnostic/undecided
Proper names Lean towards: Fregean
Properties Lean towards: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: epistemic
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement There is no fact of the matter
Response to external-world skepticism Accept: semantic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Accept: one-half
Spacetime Accept: relationism
Statue and lump Accept: two things
Teletransporter Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Accept: descriptive
Time Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions The question is too unclear to answer
Truth Accept: deflationary
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Accept: semantic
Values in science Accept: can be either
Well-being Agnostic/undecided
Wittgenstein Lean towards: early
Zombies Lean towards: inconceivable