PhilPeople

Survey Prompt	Response
A priori knowledge	Accept: yes
Abortion	Accept: permissible
Abstract objects	Accept: Platonism
Aesthetic experience	Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value	Lean towards: objective
Aim of philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Happiness is an important aim of philosophy Accept Understanding is an important aim of philosophy Accept Wisdom is an important aim of philosophy Accept Goodness/justice is an important aim of philosophy Accept Truth/knowledge is an important aim of philosophy
Analysis of knowledge	Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction	Accept: yes
Arguments for theism	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards The moral argument is the strongest argument for theism Lean towards The pragmatic argument is the strongest argument for theism Neutral towards The cosmological argument is the strongest argument for theism Reject The design argument is the strongest argument for theism Accept The ontological argument is the strongest argument for theism
Belief or credence	Lean towards: belief
Capital punishment	Accept: impermissible
Causation	Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room	Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts	Accept: nativism
Consciousness	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against eliminativism Lean against functionalism Lean towards panpsychism Accept dualism
Continuum hypothesis	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning	Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products	Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards Environmental ethics should be anthropocentric Lean towards Environmental ethics should not be anthropocentric
Epistemic justification	Lean towards: internalism
Experience machine	Accept: no
Extended mind	Lean towards: no
External world	Lean towards: idealism
Footbridge	Lean towards: push
Foundations of mathematics	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will	Accept: compatibilism
Gender	Accept a combination of answers: Reject Gender is unreal Lean against Gender is biological Accept Gender is social Accept Gender is psychological
Gender categories	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
God	Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness	Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering	Lean towards: impermissible
Hume	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards Hume was a skeptic Lean towards Hume was a naturalist
Immortality	Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Kant	Lean towards: one world
Knowledge	Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims	Lean towards: contextualism
Law	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature	Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic	Lean towards: classical
Material composition	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life	Lean towards: objective
Mental content	Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics	Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology	Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy	Accept: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy	Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy	Lean towards: non-ideal theory
Mind	Accept: non-physicalism
Mind uploading	Accept: death
Moral judgment	Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards externalism Lean towards internalism
Moral principles	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Morality	Lean towards: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts	Lean towards: value
Normative ethics	Accept: virtue ethics
Other minds	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Adult humans are conscious Lean towards Cats are conscious Lean towards Fish are conscious Lean towards Flies are conscious Lean towards Worms are conscious Lean towards Plants are conscious Neutral towards Particles are conscious Accept Newborn babies are conscious Reject Current AI systems are conscious Reject Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can	Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience	Lean towards: qualia theory
Personal identity	Accept: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge	Lean towards: a little
Philosophical methods	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards conceptual analysis Lean against linguistic philosophy Neutral towards empirical philosophy Reject experimental philosophy Neutral towards conceptual engineering Lean towards formal philosophy Accept intuition-based philosophy
Philosophical progress	Lean towards: none
Plato	Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy	Accept: communitarianism
Politics	Accept a combination of answers: Reject capitalism Accept socialism
Possible worlds	Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason	Lean towards: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason	Accept: true
Proper names	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties	Accept: transcendent universals
Propositional attitudes	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Propositions	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race	Accept: social
Race categories	Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement	Lean towards: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism	Lean towards: pragmatic
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	Lean towards: survival
Temporal ontology	Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time	Lean towards: A-theory
Time travel	Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem	Accept: switch
True contradictions	Lean towards: actual
Truth	Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection	Accept: organisms
Vagueness	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Values in science	Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being	Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein	Accept a combination of answers: Reject early Reject late
Zombies	Accept: metaphysically possible

Derek A. Michaud

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