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Note: set response grain to "fine" for details on "other" responses.

Population  AOS Response details

A priori knowledge: yes or no?

Accept or lean toward: yes 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?

Accept or lean toward: Platonism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?

Accept or lean toward: objective 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?

Accept or lean toward: yes 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?

Accept or lean toward: internalism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?

Accept or lean toward: idealism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?

Accept or lean toward: compatibilism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

God: theism or atheism?

Accept or lean toward: theism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?

Accept or lean toward: contextualism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?

Accept or lean toward: empiricism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?

Accept or lean toward: Humean 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Logic: classical or non-classical?

Accept or lean toward: classical 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Mental content: internalism or externalism?

Accept or lean toward: internalism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?

Accept or lean toward: moral realism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?

Accept or lean toward: naturalism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?

Accept or lean toward: physicalism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?

Accept or lean toward: cognitivism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?

Accept or lean toward: internalism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?

Accept or lean toward: one box 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?

Accept or lean toward: deontology 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?

Accept or lean toward: disjunctivism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?

Accept or lean toward: biological view 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?

Accept or lean toward: communitarianism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Proper names: Fregean or Millian?

Accept or lean toward: Fregean 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?

Accept or lean toward: scientific realism 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?

Accept or lean toward: survival 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Time: A-theory or B-theory?

Accept or lean toward: A-theory 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?

Accept or lean toward: switch 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?

Accept or lean toward: correspondence 931 / 931 (100.0%)

Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?

Accept or lean toward: inconceivable 931 / 931 (100.0%)

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