My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: no
Abortion Accept: permissible
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 Accept: understanding
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Agnostic/undecided
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Causation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Counterfactual/difference-making theories of causation
  • Accept Process/production theories of causation
  • Accept Primitivist theories of causation
  • Reject Eliminativism about causation
Chinese room Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Internalism about justification
  • Accept Externalism about justification
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Lean towards: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will There is no fact of the matter
Gender Agnostic/undecided
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Accept: interpretational
Hard problem of consciousness Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Accept: naturalist
Immortality Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: supervenience
Justification Accept: reliabilism
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Agnostic/undecided
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Accept an alternative view: Interventionism
Logic The question is too unclear to answer
Material composition Agnostic/undecided
Meaning of life Accept: nonexistent
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology Accept: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: survival
Moral judgment There is no fact of the matter
Moral motivation Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept externalism
  • Accept internalism
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative ethics Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Deontology
  • Accept Consequentialism
  • Accept Virtue ethics
  • Accept Contractualism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Neutral towards fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Neutral towards current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Personal identity Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a little
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
  • Neutral towards experimental philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Neutral towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Agnostic/undecided
Political philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Communitarianism in political philosophy
  • Lean towards Egalitarianism in political philosophy
  • Reject Libertarianism in political philosophy
  • Accept Rawlsian liberalism
Politics The question is too unclear to answer
Possible worlds Accept: nonexistent
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Accept: false
Proper names Accept: Millian
Properties There is no fact of the matter
Propositional attitudes Agnostic/undecided
Propositions Agnostic/undecided
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: revise
Rational disagreement Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Response to external-world skepticism Agnostic/undecided
Science There is no fact of the matter
Semantic content Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter Accept: survival
Temporal ontology There is no fact of the matter
Theory of reference Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Causal theories of reference
  • Accept Descriptive theories of reference
Time There is no fact of the matter
Time travel Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions The question is too unclear to answer
Truth Accept: deflationary
Units of selection Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept organisms
  • Accept genes
  • Accept populations
Vagueness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Accept: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible