PhilPeople

Survey Prompt	Response
A priori knowledge	Lean towards: yes
Abortion	Accept: permissible
Abstract objects	Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience	The question is too unclear to answer
Aesthetic value	Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Accept truth/knowledge Lean towards goodness/justice Lean towards happiness Lean towards understanding Lean towards wisdom
Analysis of knowledge	Lean towards: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction	Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism	Lean towards: design
Belief or credence	Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment	Accept: impermissible
Causation	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards Counterfactual/difference-making theories of causation Neutral towards Process/production theories of causation Lean against Primitivist theories of causation Lean against Eliminativism about causation
Chinese room	Lean towards: understands
Concepts	Lean towards: nativism
Consciousness	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against dualism Neutral towards identity theory Neutral towards functionalism Lean against eliminativism Lean against panpsychism
Continuum hypothesis	Agnostic/undecided
Cosmological fine-tuning	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against Design explains cosmological fine-tuning Neutral towards Nothing explains cosmological fine-tuning Neutral towards There is no cosmological fine-tuning Neutral towards The multiverse explains cosmological fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products	Agnostic/undecided
Environmental ethics	Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Experience machine	Accept: no
Extended mind	Lean towards: yes
External world	Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge	Agnostic/undecided
Foundations of mathematics	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will	Lean towards: compatibilism
Gender	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards Gender is social Lean towards Gender is psychological Neutral towards Gender is biological Neutral towards Gender is unreal
Gender categories	Lean towards: revise
God	Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards inferential Neutral towards causal/teleological Neutral towards interpretational Lean against phenomenal Reject primitive
Hard problem of consciousness	Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering	Accept: permissible
Hume	Agnostic/undecided
Immortality	Lean towards: no
Interlevel metaphysics	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards realization Neutral towards supervenience Lean towards grounding Lean towards identity
Justification	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against Coherentism about justification Reject Infinitism about justification Lean towards Nonreliabilist foundationalism about justification Lean towards Reliabilism about justification
Kant	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge	Agnostic/undecided
Knowledge claims	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Law	Lean towards: legal positivism
Laws of nature	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Logic	Lean towards: classical
Material composition	Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life	The question is too unclear to answer
Mental content	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meta-ethics	Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology	Accept a combination of answers: Reject anti-realism Lean towards heavyweight realism Lean towards deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy	Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards analytic/rational reconstruction Lean towards contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards I prefer the ideal theory method in political philosophy Lean towards I prefer the non-ideal theory method in political philosophy
Mind	Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards Persons would not survive mind uploading Neutral towards Persons would survive mind uploading
Moral judgment	Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation	Accept: externalism
Moral principles	Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality	Lean towards: naturalist realism
Newcomb's problem	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts	Accept a combination of answers: Reject ought Reject reasons Lean towards fit Lean towards value
Normative ethics	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards deontology Neutral towards virtue ethics Lean towards consequentialism
Other minds	Accept a combination of answers: Accept adult humans Lean towards cats Lean towards fish Neutral towards flies Neutral towards worms Lean against plants Reject particles Lean towards newborn babies Lean against current AI systems Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can	Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience	Accept a combination of answers: Reject Disjunctivism Lean towards Qualia theory Lean towards Representationalism about perceptual experience Reject Sense-datum theory
Personal identity	Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge	Lean towards: a lot
Philosophical methods	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Accept Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Lean towards Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Neutral towards Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Neutral towards Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Lean towards conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Neutral towards Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress	Accept: a lot
Plato	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards Egalitarianism in political philosophy Neutral towards Libertarianism in political philosophy Neutral towards Communitarianism in political philosophy
Politics	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards socialism Lean towards capitalism
Possible worlds	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards abstract Neutral towards nonexistent Reject concrete
Practical reason	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against Aristotelianism about practical reason Lean against Humeanism about practical reason Lean against Kantianism about practical reason
Principle of sufficient reason	Lean towards: false
Proper names	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Properties	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against Properties are classes Neutral towards Properties are immanent universals Neutral towards Properties are transcendent universals Lean against Properties are tropes Lean against Properties are nonexistent
Propositional attitudes	Accept: representational
Propositions	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Quantum mechanics	Agnostic/undecided
Race	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards biological Lean against unreal Lean towards social
Race categories	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards eliminate Reject preserve Lean towards revise
Rational disagreement	The question is too unclear to answer
Response to external-world skepticism	Lean towards: contextualist
Science	Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content	Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime	Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump	Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards survival Lean towards death
Temporal ontology	Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference	Lean towards: causal
Time	Lean towards: B-theory
Time travel	Agnostic/undecided
Trolley problem	Agnostic/undecided
True contradictions	Lean towards: impossible
Truth	Accept: correspondence
Units of selection	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards organisms Accept genes
Vagueness	Agnostic/undecided
Values in science	Lean towards: can be either
Well-being	Lean towards: hedonism/experientialism
Wittgenstein	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Zombies	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards Zombies are inconceivable Neutral towards Zombies are conceivable but not metaphysically possible Lean against Zombies are metaphysically possible

Tim Nailer

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