My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Abstract objects There is no fact of the matter
Aesthetic experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aesthetic value Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Agnostic/undecided
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Causation Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards nativism
  • Lean towards empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis There is no fact of the matter
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine The question is too unclear to answer
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: set-theoretic
Free will Accept: compatibilism
Gender Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Gender categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
God Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume The question is too unclear to answer
Immortality Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics There is no fact of the matter
Justification There is no fact of the matter
Kant The question is too unclear to answer
Knowledge Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards empiricism
  • Lean towards rationalism
Knowledge claims Lean towards: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life There is no fact of the matter
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Lean towards: death
Moral judgment Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Morality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Newcomb's problem Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Neutral towards plants
  • Neutral towards particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Lean towards current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: biological view
Philosophical knowledge Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Lean towards empirical philosophy
  • Lean towards linguistic philosophy
  • Lean towards formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: nonexistent
Practical reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: true
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Properties Lean towards: immanent universals
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Lean towards: collapse
Race Accept: biological
Race categories Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Lean towards: don't switch
True contradictions Lean towards: impossible
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible