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
|