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Survey Prompt	Response
A priori knowledge	Accept: no
Abortion	Accept: permissible
Abstract objects	Accept: nominalism
Aesthetic experience	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Aesthetic experience is a form of perception Accept Aesthetic experience is a form of pleasure Accept Aesthetic experience is sui generis
Aesthetic value	Accept: subjective
Aim of philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Truth/knowledge is an important aim of philosophy Accept Understanding is an important aim of philosophy Accept Wisdom is an important aim of philosophy Accept Happiness is an important aim of philosophy Accept Goodness/justice is an important aim of philosophy
Analysis of knowledge	Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction	Accept: no
Arguments for theism	Accept a combination of answers: Reject The cosmological argument is the strongest argument for theism Reject The design argument is the strongest argument for theism Reject The ontological argument is the strongest argument for theism Reject The pragmatic argument is the strongest argument for theism Reject The moral argument is the strongest argument for theism
Belief or credence	Accept: neither
Capital punishment	Accept: impermissible
Causation	Accept: primitive
Chinese room	Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts	Accept: empiricism
Consciousness	Other
Continuum hypothesis	Accept: indeterminate
Cosmological fine-tuning	Accept a combination of answers: Accept The multiverse explains cosmological fine-tuning Accept There is no cosmological fine-tuning
Eating animals and animal products	Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics	Accept: non-anthropocentric
Epistemic justification	Accept: externalism
Experience machine	Accept: no
Extended mind	Accept: yes
External world	Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge	Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics	Accept: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will	Accept: compatibilism
Gender	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Gender is biological Accept Gender is psychological Accept Gender is social Reject Gender is unreal
Gender categories	Accept: revise
God	Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality	Accept: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness	Accept: no
Human genetic engineering	Accept: permissible
Hume	Accept: naturalist
Immortality	Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics	Accept: supervenience
Justification	Accept: reliabilism
Kant	Accept: one world
Knowledge	Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims	Accept: contextualism
Law	Accept: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature	Accept: Humean
Logic	Accept: non-classical
Material composition	Accept: restrictivism
Meaning of life	Accept: subjective
Mental content	Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics	Accept: moral anti-realism
Metaontology	Accept: deflationary realism
Metaphilosophy	Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy	Accept: contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy	Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind	Accept: physicalism
Mind uploading	Agnostic/undecided
Moral judgment	Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation	Accept: externalism
Moral principles	Accept: moral particularism
Morality	Accept a combination of answers: Reject Non-naturalism about morality Accept Naturalist realism about morality Reject Constructivism about morality Reject Expressivism about morality Accept Error theory of morality
Newcomb's problem	Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts	Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics	Other
Other minds	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Adult humans are conscious Accept Cats are conscious Accept Fish are conscious Accept Flies are conscious Reject Worms are conscious Reject Plants are conscious Reject Particles are conscious Accept Newborn babies are conscious Reject Current AI systems are conscious Reject Future AI systems are conscious
Ought implies can	Accept: yes
Perceptual experience	Accept: representationalism
Personal identity	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Biological views of personal identity Accept Psychological views of personal identity Accept Further-fact views of personal identity
Philosophical knowledge	Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Accept conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Accept Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Accept Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Accept Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Accept Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy Accept Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress	Accept: a little
Plato	Accept: knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Communitarianism in political philosophy Accept Egalitarianism in political philosophy Reject Libertarianism in political philosophy
Politics	Accept a combination of answers: Lean towards Capitalism in politics Lean against Socialism in politics
Possible worlds	Agnostic/undecided
Practical reason	Accept: Aristotelian
Principle of sufficient reason	Accept: false
Proper names	Accept: Millian
Properties	Accept: tropes
Propositional attitudes	Accept: representational
Propositions	Accept: structured entities
Quantum mechanics	Accept: many-worlds
Race	Accept: social
Race categories	Accept: revise
Rational disagreement	Accept: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism	Accept: epistemic externalist
Science	Accept: scientific realism
Semantic content	Accept: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty	Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime	Accept: relationism
Statue and lump	Accept: one thing
Teletransporter	Accept: survival
Temporal ontology	Accept: presentism
Theory of reference	Accept: deflationary
Time	Accept: B-theory
Time travel	Accept: metaphysically impossible
Trolley problem	Accept: switch
True contradictions	Accept: actual
Truth	Accept: deflationary
Units of selection	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Genes are the unit of natural selection Accept Organisms are the unit of natural selection
Vagueness	Accept: metaphysical
Values in science	Accept: can be either
Well-being	Accept a combination of answers: Accept Hedonism or experientialism about well-being Accept Desire satisfaction views of well-being
Wittgenstein	Accept: late
Zombies	Accept: metaphysically possible

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