PhilPeople

Survey Prompt	Response
A priori knowledge	Lean towards: no
Abortion	Accept: permissible
Abstract objects	Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience	Lean towards: perception
Aesthetic value	Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards goodness/justice Lean towards understanding Reject happiness Neutral towards truth/knowledge Neutral towards wisdom
Analysis of knowledge	The question is too unclear to answer
Analytic-synthetic distinction	Lean towards: no
Arguments for theism	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards pragmatic Lean towards moral Neutral towards cosmological Reject ontological Reject design
Belief or credence	Lean towards: neither
Capital punishment	Agnostic/undecided
Causation	Lean towards: process/production
Chinese room	Lean towards: understands
Concepts	Accept: empiricism
Consciousness	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards functionalism Reject dualism Reject panpsychism Neutral towards eliminativism Reject identity theory
Continuum hypothesis	Lean towards: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning	Lean towards: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products	Agnostic/undecided
Environmental ethics	Lean towards: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification	Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine	Accept: no
Extended mind	Accept: yes
External world	Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge	Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics	Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against libertarianism Lean towards compatibilism Reject no free will
Gender	Lean towards: social
Gender categories	Lean towards: revise
God	Accept: theism
Grounds of intentionality	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards causal/teleological Reject phenomenal Neutral towards interpretational Lean towards primitive Reject inferential
Hard problem of consciousness	Lean towards: no
Human genetic engineering	Agnostic/undecided
Hume	Lean towards: skeptic
Immortality	Accept: no
Interlevel metaphysics	Lean towards: identity
Justification	Accept a combination of answers: Reject nonreliabilist foundationalism Lean towards coherentism Lean towards reliabilism Neutral towards infinitism
Kant	Accept: one world
Knowledge	Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims	Lean towards: contextualism
Law	Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature	Accept: Humean
Logic	Lean towards: non-classical
Material composition	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life	Agnostic/undecided
Mental content	Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics	Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy	Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy	Lean towards: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy	Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind	Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading	Lean towards: survival
Moral judgment	Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation	Lean towards: internalism
Moral principles	Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against non-naturalism Lean towards naturalist realism Reject expressivism Neutral towards constructivism Reject error theory
Newcomb's problem	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts	Accept a combination of answers: Neutral towards value Lean towards reasons Lean against ought Lean against fit
Normative ethics	Accept a combination of answers: Reject consequentialism Lean towards virtue ethics Lean towards deontology
Other minds	Accept a combination of answers: Accept adult humans Accept cats Accept fish Lean against flies Lean against worms Lean against plants Reject particles Accept newborn babies Lean against current AI systems Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can	Lean towards: yes
Perceptual experience	Accept: disjunctivism
Personal identity	Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge	Accept: a little
Philosophical methods	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against conceptual analysis Lean towards linguistic philosophy Accept experimental philosophy Lean against intuition-based philosophy Lean against conceptual engineering Accept formal philosophy Accept empirical philosophy
Philosophical progress	Accept: a little
Plato	Accept: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards communitarianism Lean against libertarianism Lean towards egalitarianism
Politics	Accept: socialism
Possible worlds	Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason	Accept a combination of answers: Reject Humean Lean towards Aristotelian Lean towards Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason	Accept: false
Proper names	Lean towards: Millian
Properties	Lean towards: tropes
Propositional attitudes	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards nonexistent Lean against dispositional Reject phenomenal Reject representational
Propositions	Agnostic/undecided
Quantum mechanics	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against collapse Lean towards many-worlds Neutral towards hidden-variables Lean towards epistemic
Race	Accept: unreal
Race categories	Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement	Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism	Accept: semantic externalist
Science	Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content	Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime	Accept: relationism
Statue and lump	Accept: one thing
Teletransporter	Agnostic/undecided
Temporal ontology	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference	Lean towards: causal
Time	Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel	Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem	Agnostic/undecided
True contradictions	Lean towards: possible but non-actual
Truth	Accept a combination of answers: Lean against epistemic Lean against deflationary Lean towards correspondence
Units of selection	Lean towards: genes
Vagueness	Accept: semantic
Values in science	Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being	Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein	Accept: late
Zombies	Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible

Vanja Subotić

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