PhilPeople

Survey Prompt	Response
A priori knowledge	Lean towards: no
Abortion	Accept: permissible
Abstract objects	Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value	Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy	Lean towards: understanding
Analysis of knowledge	Accept: no analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction	Lean towards: yes
Capital punishment	Lean towards: impermissible
Causation	Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room	Lean towards: doesn't understand
Concepts	Accept: empiricism
Continuum hypothesis	Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning	Lean towards: brute fact
Eating animals and animal products	Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics	Lean towards: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification	Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine	Accept: no
External world	Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge	Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics	Lean towards: structuralism
Free will	Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender	The question is too unclear to answer
Gender categories	Accept: eliminate
God	Accept: atheism
Human genetic engineering	Lean towards: permissible
Immortality	Lean towards: yes
Knowledge	Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims	Lean towards: contextualism
Laws of nature	Accept: Humean
Logic	The question is too unclear to answer
Meaning of life	Lean towards: subjective
Meta-ethics	Lean towards: moral anti-realism
Metaphilosophy	Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy	Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Mind	Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading	Accept: death
Moral judgment	Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation	Accept: externalism
Morality	Accept: constructivism
Newcomb's problem	There is no fact of the matter
Normative ethics	Lean towards: deontology
Other minds	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Adult humans are conscious Accept Cats are conscious Accept Fish are conscious Lean towards Flies are conscious Lean towards Worms are conscious Reject Plants are conscious Reject Particles are conscious Accept Newborn babies are conscious Lean towards Current AI systems are conscious Lean towards Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can	Lean towards: yes
Personal identity	Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge	Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Lean towards conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Accept 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 Lean against Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Neutral towards Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress	Lean towards: a lot
Plato	Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Politics	Accept: socialism
Possible worlds	Lean towards: nonexistent
Race	Lean towards: social
Race categories	Lean towards: eliminate
Rational disagreement	Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism	Accept: pragmatic
Science	Lean towards: scientific realism
Spacetime	Lean towards: relationism
Statue and lump	Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter	Accept: death
Temporal ontology	Lean towards: growing block
Time	Accept: B-theory
Time travel	Lean towards: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem	Lean towards: don't switch
True contradictions	Lean towards: possible but non-actual
Truth	Lean towards: deflationary
Units of selection	Lean towards: organisms
Values in science	Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Wittgenstein	Accept: late
Zombies	Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible

Ether Lin

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