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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: no
Belief or credence Agnostic/undecided
Consciousness Lean towards: identity theory
Environmental ethics Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: structuralism
Free will Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Compatibilism about free will
  • Lean against Libertarianism about free will
  • Lean towards Eliminativism about free will
Gender categories Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject Gender categories should be preserved
  • Lean towards Gender categories should be revised
  • Neutral towards Gender categories should be eliminated
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Hume Accept: naturalist
Immortality Accept: no
Justification Lean towards: reliabilism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Accept: Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Material composition Lean towards: nihilism
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Morality Accept: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Accept Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Reject Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Other
Rational disagreement Agnostic/undecided
Response to external-world skepticism Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept An abductive response to external-world skepticism is strongest
  • Neutral towards A contextualist response to external-world skepticism is strongest
  • Lean against A dogmatist response to external-world skepticism is strongest
  • Accept An epistemic externalist response to external-world skepticism is strongest
  • Lean towards A semantic externalist response to external-world skepticism is strongest
  • Accept A pragmatic response to external-world skepticism is strongest
Science Accept: scientific realism
Spacetime Lean towards: relationism
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Time Accept: B-theory
Trolley problem Accept: switch
Units of selection Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness Agnostic/undecided
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Wittgenstein Accept: early
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible