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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.
  • Compatibilism
    46.7%
  • Other
    4.5%
  • Libertarianism
    12.4%
  • No free will
    36.3%
507 votesFinal results
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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.
  • Moral realism
    50.5%
  • Moral anti-realism
    38%
  • Other
    11.4%
455 votesFinal results
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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).
  • Other
    14.8%
  • Deontology
    16.8%
  • Consequentialism
    43.6%
  • Virtue ethics
    24.8%
440 votesFinal results
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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?
  • Survival
    44.8%
  • Other
    17.6%
  • Death
    37.7%
507 votesFinal results
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