| Survey Prompt |
Response |
| A priori knowledge |
Accept an alternative view:
Objective idealism.
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| Abstract objects |
Accept an alternative view:
This is not a proper use of the term "abstract."
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| Aesthetic value |
Accept an alternative view:
Neither aesthetics nor ethics are about "value."
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| Aim of philosophy |
Accept an alternative view:
Know thyself. Nothing in excess.
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| Analytic-synthetic distinction |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| Belief or credence |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| Capital punishment |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| Eating animals and animal products |
Accept an alternative view:
What Thoreau says about this.
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| Environmental ethics |
Accept an alternative view:
What Thoreau says about this.
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| Epistemic justification |
Accept an alternative view:
Objective idealism.
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| Experience machine |
Insufficiently familiar with the issue
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| Extended mind |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| External world |
Accept an alternative view:
Objective idealism.
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| Footbridge |
Lean towards:
don't push
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| Free will |
Accept an alternative view:
This is an antinomy of pure reason.
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| Gender |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| God |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| Grounds of intentionality |
Accept an alternative view:
Against this Husserlian concept.
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| Knowledge |
Accept an alternative view:
Objective idealism.
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| Knowledge claims |
Insufficiently familiar with the issue
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| Laws of nature |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| Logic |
Accept an alternative view:
Hegelian.
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| Meaning of life |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| Mental content |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| Meta-ethics |
Accept an alternative view:
"Meta-ethics" is not a useful term.
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| Metaphilosophy |
Accept an alternative view:
"Metaphilosophy" is not a useful term and all philosophy properly so called is self-conscious.
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| Method in history of philosophy |
Accept an alternative view:
All the uses of history — monumental, antiquarian, and critical — can degenerate until they become a danger to life.
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| Mind |
Accept an alternative view:
The peculiarly rational character of modern physics is due to the fact that it does not take any special interest in itself (qua physical thing), hence has no need for morally ineliminable concepts.
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| Moral judgment |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| Moral motivation |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| Newcomb's problem |
Accept an alternative view:
This is an antinomy of pure reason.
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| Normative ethics |
Accept an alternative view:
"Normative" is not a useful term and this is a bad way to think about our duties.
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| Other minds |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| Perceptual experience |
Accept an alternative view:
Objective idealism.
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| Personal identity |
Accept an alternative view:
"Person" is a forensic term.
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| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
-
Accept
conceptual analysis
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Reject
intuition-based philosophy
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Neutral towards
formal philosophy
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Reject
conceptual engineering
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Reject
empirical philosophy
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Accept
linguistic philosophy
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Reject
experimental philosophy
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Accept
Argumentum ad hominem.
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| Philosophical progress |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| Political philosophy |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| Proper names |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| Properties |
Accept an alternative view:
Nominalism about the category of substance.
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| Propositional attitudes |
Accept an alternative view:
An attitude toward being, and beyond that, nothing. What about this nothing?
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| Race |
Accept an alternative view:
The concept race lacks an empirical deduction.
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| Science |
Accept an alternative view:
Modern science is peculiarly rational because it exposes its concepts to severe testing.
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| Teletransporter |
Accept an alternative view:
The riddle of death is not a theoretical question, but a practical situation to be overcome.
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| Temporal ontology |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| Time |
Accept an alternative view:
XYZPDQ
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| Trolley problem |
Lean towards:
don't switch
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| Truth |
Accept an alternative view:
The true is the whole.
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| Vagueness |
The question is too unclear to answer
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| Zombies |
Accept an alternative view:
The philosophy that raises this question is a zombie philosophy.
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