| Survey Prompt |
Response |
| A priori knowledge |
Accept:
yes
|
| Abortion |
Accept:
permissible
|
| Abstract objects |
Lean towards:
Platonism
|
| Aesthetic experience |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Aesthetic value |
Accept an alternative view:
It depends on what is being considered. Some things that are thought to have aesthetic value are purely subjective and others are purely objective and most, I think, are a combination of both.
|
| Aim of philosophy |
Accept:
truth/knowledge
|
| Analysis of knowledge |
Accept:
other analysis
|
| Analytic-synthetic distinction |
Accept:
yes
|
| Arguments for theism |
Accept:
cosmological
|
| Belief or credence |
Accept:
credence
|
| Capital punishment |
Accept an alternative view:
Since death is comparatively less bad than actual punishments that are, in principle, permissible it can be, in principle, permissible. However, it is impermissible in the current justice systems.
|
| Causation |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Chinese room |
Accept:
doesn't understand
|
| Concepts |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Consciousness |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Continuum hypothesis |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Cosmological fine-tuning |
Lean towards:
multiverse
|
| Eating animals and animal products |
Accept:
veganism (no and no)
|
| Environmental ethics |
Accept:
non-anthropocentric
|
| Epistemic justification |
Lean towards:
internalism
|
| Experience machine |
Accept an alternative view:
I accept that it would be prudentially best to enter, but in most ways of imagining the scenario, it would be immoral to enter. So I would not enter, though it would benefit me to do so.
|
| Extended mind |
Accept:
no
|
| External world |
Accept:
non-skeptical realism
|
| Footbridge |
Accept:
push
|
| Foundations of mathematics |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Free will |
Lean towards:
compatibilism
|
| Gender |
Accept:
social
|
| Gender categories |
Accept:
revise
|
| God |
Lean towards:
atheism
|
| Grounds of intentionality |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Hard problem of consciousness |
Accept:
yes
|
| Human genetic engineering |
Accept:
permissible
|
| Hume |
Lean towards:
skeptic
|
| Immortality |
Accept an alternative view:
Under certain conditions I would accept it for prudential reasons and I would reject it under other conditions for prudential reasons.
|
| Interlevel metaphysics |
Lean towards:
grounding
|
| Justification |
Lean towards:
coherentism
|
| Kant |
Insufficiently familiar with the issue
|
| Knowledge |
Accept:
rationalism
|
| Knowledge claims |
Accept:
invariantism
|
| Law |
Accept an alternative view:
The law has no independent normative force above and beyond prudential and moral reasons to act.
|
| Laws of nature |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Logic |
Lean towards:
classical
|
| Material composition |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Meaning of life |
Accept:
nonexistent
|
| Mental content |
Insufficiently familiar with the issue
|
| Meta-ethics |
Accept:
moral realism
|
| Metaontology |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Metaphilosophy |
Lean towards:
non-naturalism
|
| Method in history of philosophy |
Accept:
analytic/rational reconstruction
|
| Method in political philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
-
Accept
ideal theory
-
Accept
non-ideal theory
|
| Mind |
Lean towards:
physicalism
|
| Mind uploading |
Lean towards:
death
|
| Moral judgment |
Accept:
cognitivism
|
| Moral motivation |
Accept:
externalism
|
| Moral principles |
Accept:
moral particularism
|
| Morality |
Accept a combination of answers:
-
Reject
constructivism
-
Reject
error theory
-
Reject
expressivism
-
Lean towards
non-naturalism
-
Lean towards
naturalist realism
|
| Newcomb's problem |
Accept:
two boxes
|
| Normative concepts |
Accept:
reasons
|
| Normative ethics |
Accept an alternative view:
These categories are too broad to capture differences in ethical theory. Every plausible normative ethical view could be accurately described as kinds of consequentialism, deontology, & virtue ethics.
|
| Other minds |
Accept a combination of answers:
-
Accept
adult humans
-
Accept
cats
-
Accept
fish
-
Lean against
flies
-
Lean against
worms
-
Reject
plants
-
Reject
particles
-
Accept
newborn babies
-
Reject
current AI systems
-
Reject
future AI systems
|
| Ought implies can |
Accept:
yes
|
| Perceptual experience |
Insufficiently familiar with the issue
|
| Personal identity |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Philosophical knowledge |
Accept:
a lot
|
| Philosophical methods |
Accept a combination of answers:
-
Accept
intuition-based philosophy
-
Lean against
empirical philosophy
-
Accept
formal philosophy
-
Lean towards
linguistic philosophy
-
Lean towards
conceptual engineering
-
Lean towards
conceptual analysis
-
Lean against
experimental philosophy
|
| Philosophical progress |
Accept:
a lot
|
| Plato |
Lean towards:
knowledge only of forms
|
| Political philosophy |
Accept a combination of answers:
-
Reject
communitarianism
-
Reject
libertarianism
-
Reject
egalitarianism
|
| Politics |
Accept:
capitalism
|
| Possible worlds |
Lean towards:
abstract
|
| Practical reason |
Accept a combination of answers:
-
Reject
Kantian
-
Reject
Humean
-
Reject
Aristotelian
|
| Principle of sufficient reason |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Proper names |
Insufficiently familiar with the issue
|
| Properties |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Propositional attitudes |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Propositions |
Insufficiently familiar with the issue
|
| Quantum mechanics |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Race |
Other
|
| Race categories |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Rational disagreement |
Accept:
non-permissivism
|
| Response to external-world skepticism |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Science |
Lean towards:
scientific realism
|
| Semantic content |
Lean towards:
moderate contextualism (intermediate)
|
| Sleeping beauty |
Accept:
one-third
|
| Spacetime |
Insufficiently familiar with the issue
|
| Statue and lump |
Accept an alternative view:
This is a mere verbal dispute.
|
| Teletransporter |
Accept:
death
|
| Temporal ontology |
Lean towards:
growing block
|
| Theory of reference |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Time |
Lean towards:
A-theory
|
| Time travel |
Lean towards:
metaphysically possible
|
| Trolley problem |
Accept:
switch
|
| True contradictions |
Accept:
impossible
|
| Truth |
Agnostic/undecided
|
| Units of selection |
Accept a combination of answers:
-
Accept
genes
-
Accept
organisms
|
| Vagueness |
Accept a combination of answers:
-
Lean towards
epistemic
-
Lean towards
metaphysical
-
Accept
semantic
|
| Values in science |
The question is too unclear to answer
|
| Well-being |
Accept:
hedonism/experientialism
|
| Wittgenstein |
Accept:
late
|
| Zombies |
Lean towards:
conceivable but not metaphysically possible
|
