There's this thing called The PhilPapers Survey, which polled ~3000 philosophers on ~30 philosophical issues ~10 years ago. For a lark, let's redo some of it here. Original results (no peeking) are at https://philpapers.org/surveys/ Choose the option that you accept *or lean toward.*
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Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? Compatibilism is the position that free will and determinism are compatible. Libertarianism is the position that free will and determinism are incompatible, and agents have free will, so determinism is false.
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God: theism or atheism?
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Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? Moral realism is the position that ethical sentences express propositions that refer to objective features of the world (i.e. features independent of subjective opinion), some of which may be true.
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Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? Deontology is ethics based on duty, or what is right, or rights, as opposed to achieving some good state of affairs (consequentialism) or the qualities of character necessary to live well (virtue ethics).
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I enter a Teletransporter. It destroys my body, recording the states of my cells. This info is beamed to Mars, where another machine makes a copy of my body. The person who wakes up on Mars seems to remember living my life, & is in every other way just like me. Did I survive?
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Sources for (paraphrased) definitions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism … https://philpapers.org/browse/libertarianism-about-free-will … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_realism … http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095711124 …https://philpapers.org/rec/PARWAN
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Every time I do a poll, I wonder if
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I've done 4 of those above polls! So yes, I guess. With slightly different phrasing tho.
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