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Survey Prompt	Response
A priori knowledge	Accept: yes
Abortion	Lean towards: permissible
Abstract objects	There is no fact of the matter
Aesthetic experience	Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value	Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards wisdom Neutral towards goodness/justice Lean towards truth/knowledge Neutral towards happiness Lean towards understanding
Analysis of knowledge	Lean towards: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction	Accept: yes
Arguments for theism	Accept an alternative view: simulation
Belief or credence	Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment	Lean towards: impermissible
Causation	Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room	Accept: understands
Concepts	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards nativism Neutral towards empiricism
Consciousness	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards dualism Lean against functionalism Lean against eliminativism Reject identity theory Lean towards panpsychism
Continuum hypothesis	Lean towards: determinate
Cosmological fine-tuning	Lean towards: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products	Lean towards: veganism (no and no)
Environmental ethics	Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification	Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine	Accept: no
Extended mind	Lean towards: yes
External world	Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge	Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics	Lean towards: set-theoretic
Free will	Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards biological Lean towards social Lean against unreal Lean towards psychological
Gender categories	Lean towards: revise
God	Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against causal/teleological Lean against interpretational Lean towards inferential Lean towards phenomenal Lean towards primitive
Hard problem of consciousness	Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering	Lean towards: permissible
Hume	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality	Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards realization Lean towards supervenience Neutral towards identity Lean towards grounding Lean towards scrutability
Justification	Lean towards: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Kant	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge	Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims	Lean towards: contextualism
Law	There is no fact of the matter
Laws of nature	Accept: non-Humean
Logic	Lean towards: classical
Material composition	There is no fact of the matter
Meaning of life	Lean towards: subjective
Mental content	Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics	Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaontology	Lean towards: anti-realism
Metaphilosophy	Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy	Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards ideal theory Lean towards non-ideal theory
Mind	Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading	Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment	Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation	Lean towards: externalism
Moral principles	Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality	Agnostic/undecided
Newcomb's problem	Accept: one box
Normative concepts	Lean towards: ought
Normative ethics	Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds	Accept a combination of answers: Accept adult humans Accept cats Lean towards fish Lean towards flies Lean towards worms Neutral towards plants Neutral towards particles Accept newborn babies Neutral towards current AI systems Accept future AI systems
Ought implies can	Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience	Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity	Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge	Accept: a little
Philosophical methods	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against linguistic philosophy Accept formal philosophy Neutral towards experimental philosophy Accept empirical philosophy Accept intuition-based philosophy Neutral towards conceptual analysis Lean towards conceptual engineering
Philosophical progress	Lean towards: a little
Plato	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy	Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards capitalism Lean towards socialism
Possible worlds	Accept: abstract
Practical reason	Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason	Accept: false
Proper names	Lean towards: Fregean
Properties	There is no fact of the matter
Propositional attitudes	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards dispositional Lean towards phenomenal Lean towards representational Reject nonexistent
Propositions	Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics	Accept a combination of answers: Reject epistemic Lean towards collapse Lean against hidden-variables Lean towards many-worlds
Race	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards biological Lean against unreal Lean towards social
Race categories	Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement	Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against contextualist Lean towards abductive Lean against dogmatist Lean against epistemic externalist Lean against pragmatic Lean towards semantic externalist
Science	Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content	Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty	Accept: one-third
Spacetime	Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump	There is no fact of the matter
Teletransporter	Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology	Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference	Lean towards: descriptive
Time	Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel	Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem	Accept: switch
True contradictions	Accept: impossible
Truth	Accept: correspondence
Units of selection	Lean towards: organisms
Vagueness	Lean towards: semantic
Values in science	Accept: can be either
Well-being	Lean towards: objective list
Wittgenstein	Lean towards: late
Zombies	Accept: metaphysically possible

David Chalmers

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