PhilPeople

Survey Prompt	Response
A priori knowledge	Accept: yes
Abortion	Accept: permissible
Abstract objects	Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience	Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic value	Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy	Accept: happiness
Analysis of knowledge	Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction	Accept: yes
Arguments for theism	Accept: ontological
Belief or credence	Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment	Accept: impermissible
Causation	Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room	Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Consciousness	Accept: dualism
Continuum hypothesis	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning	Lean towards: no fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products	Accept: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics	Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification	Accept: internalism
Experience machine	Accept: no
Extended mind	Accept: yes
External world	Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge	Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics	Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will	Lean towards: libertarianism
Gender	Lean towards: social
Gender categories	Accept: revise
God	Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality	Agnostic/undecided
Hard problem of consciousness	Lean towards: yes
Human genetic engineering	Lean towards: permissible
Hume	Agnostic/undecided
Immortality	Lean towards: yes
Interlevel metaphysics	Lean towards: realization
Justification	Accept: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant	Lean towards: one world
Knowledge	Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims	Lean towards: invariantism
Law	Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature	Agnostic/undecided
Logic	Lean towards: classical
Material composition	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life	Lean towards: nonexistent
Mental content	Agnostic/undecided
Meta-ethics	Accept: moral realism
Metaontology	Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy	Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy	Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy	Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind	Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading	Agnostic/undecided
Moral judgment	Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation	Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles	Accept: moral generalism
Morality	Accept: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem	Agnostic/undecided
Normative concepts	Lean towards: value
Normative ethics	Accept: deontology
Other minds	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Adult humans are conscious Accept Cats are conscious Accept Fish are conscious Lean against Flies are conscious Lean against Worms are conscious Reject Plants are conscious Reject Particles are conscious Accept Newborn babies are conscious Lean against Current AI systems are conscious Neutral towards Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can	Accept: no
Perceptual experience	Agnostic/undecided
Personal identity	Agnostic/undecided
Philosophical knowledge	Accept: a little
Philosophical methods	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Lean towards conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Lean towards Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Lean towards Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Neutral towards Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Accept Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Lean against Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress	Accept: a little
Plato	Agnostic/undecided
Political philosophy	Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics	Accept: socialism
Possible worlds	Accept: abstract
Practical reason	Lean towards: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason	Accept: true
Proper names	Agnostic/undecided
Properties	Accept: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes	Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions	Lean towards: simple entities
Quantum mechanics	Agnostic/undecided
Race	Lean towards: social
Race categories	Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement	Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism	Accept: abductive
Science	Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Sleeping beauty	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump	Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter	Accept: survival
Temporal ontology	Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference	Agnostic/undecided
Time	Accept: B-theory
Time travel	Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem	Lean towards: don't switch
True contradictions	Accept: impossible
Truth	Accept: correspondence
Units of selection	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness	Accept: epistemic
Values in science	Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being	Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein	There is no fact of the matter
Zombies	Accept: metaphysically possible

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