Survey Results

Correlations

Personal identity: psychological view

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Strongest correlations with philosophical questions

r: 0.36
Mind uploading: survival
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 175 200
Reject 59 299
n: 733
p < 0.0001
r: 0.34
Teletransporter: survival
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 351 238
Reject 132 397
n: 1118
p < 0.0001
r: -0.32
Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 22 271
Reject 96 211
n: 600
p < 0.0001
r: 0.32
Abortion: permissible
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 399 28
Reject 295 108
n: 830
p < 0.0001
r: 0.24
Other minds: future AI systems
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 215 192
Reject 119 279
n: 805
p < 0.0001
r: -0.23
Material composition: restrictivism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 62 129
Reject 116 97
n: 404
p < 0.0001
r: -0.23
Free will: libertarianism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 88 575
Reject 171 440
n: 1274
p < 0.0001
r: -0.23
Well-being: objective list
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 179 173
Reject 239 103
n: 694
p < 0.0001
r: 0.22
Consciousness: functionalism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 174 207
Reject 106 248
n: 735
p < 0.0001
r: -0.22
Causation: primitive
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 48 276
Reject 101 220
n: 645
p < 0.0001
r: 0.22
Material composition: universalism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 83 108
Reject 47 166
n: 404
p < 0.0001
r: -0.21
Morality: non-naturalism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 70 295
Reject 148 238
n: 751
p < 0.0001
r: -0.21
God: theism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 91 581
Reject 166 432
n: 1270
p < 0.0001
r: -0.21
Meaning of life: objective
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 192 398
Reject 239 264
n: 1093
p < 0.0001
r: 0.21
Cosmological fine-tuning: no fine-tuning
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 83 211
Reject 46 258
n: 598
p < 0.0001
r: 0.2
Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 369 182
Reject 235 266
n: 1052
p < 0.0001
r: -0.2
Practical reason: Aristotelian
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 124 221
Reject 146 156
n: 647
p < 0.0001
r: 0.2
Meaning of life: subjective
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 291 299
Reject 162 340
n: 1092
p < 0.0001
r: -0.2
Consciousness: dualism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 76 303
Reject 116 237
n: 732
p < 0.0001
r: -0.19
Continuum hypothesis: determinate
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 66 114
Reject 84 81
n: 345
p: 0.0005
r: 0.18
Causation: counterfactual/difference-making
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 160 170
Reject 106 217
n: 653
p < 0.0001
r: -0.18
Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 29 307
Reject 78 265
n: 679
p < 0.0001
r: 0.18
Practical reason: Humean
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 138 207
Reject 87 215
n: 647
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Mind: physicalism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 426 214
Reject 285 302
n: 1227
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Well-being: desire satisfaction
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 101 252
Reject 51 290
n: 694
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Free will: compatibilism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 474 191
Reject 343 269
n: 1277
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Time travel: metaphysically possible
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 188 170
Reject 133 210
n: 701
p < 0.0001
r: -0.17
Belief or credence: belief
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 90 203
Reject 111 185
n: 589
p < 0.0001
r: -0.16
Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 84 264
Reject 109 222
n: 679
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Morality: constructivism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 104 264
Reject 63 325
n: 756
p < 0.0001
r: -0.16
Aesthetic value: objective
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 279 340
Reject 323 237
n: 1179
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Normative ethics: consequentialism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 263 360
Reject 149 408
n: 1180
p < 0.0001
r: -0.16
Concepts: nativism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 95 207
Reject 106 176
n: 584
p: 0.0002
r: -0.16
Temporal ontology: presentism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 39 221
Reject 73 203
n: 536
p: 0.0003
r: 0.15
Footbridge: push
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 181 431
Reject 112 458
n: 1182
p < 0.0001
r: -0.15
Time: A-theory
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 98 284
Reject 152 254
n: 788
p < 0.0001
r: -0.15
Hume: skeptic
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 112 213
Reject 130 170
n: 625
p: 0.0002
r: 0.15
Spacetime: relationism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 127 105
Reject 95 132
n: 459
p: 0.0016
r: 0.15
Temporal ontology: eternalism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 133 127
Reject 101 175
n: 536
p: 0.0007
r: 0.14
Metaontology: anti-realism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 37 212
Reject 23 239
n: 511
p: 0.001
r: 0.14
Laws of nature: Humean
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 227 363
Reject 144 417
n: 1151
p < 0.0001
r: 0.14
Political philosophy: egalitarianism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 316 232
Reject 223 268
n: 1039
p < 0.0001
r: -0.14
Metaontology: heavyweight realism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 101 150
Reject 134 129
n: 514
p: 0.0014
r: -0.14
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 65 415
Reject 105 348
n: 933
p < 0.0001
r: -0.14
Race categories: preserve
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 24 312
Reject 40 281
n: 657
p: 0.0004
r: 0.14
Knowledge: empiricism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 343 212
Reject 246 252
n: 1053
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Belief or credence: credence
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 110 183
Reject 82 214
n: 589
p: 0.0011
r: -0.13
Meta-ethics: moral realism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 421 226
Reject 436 167
n: 1250
p < 0.0001
r: -0.13
Quantum mechanics: collapse
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 30 172
Reject 44 157
n: 403
p: 0.0082
r: 0.13
Human genetic engineering: permissible
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 302 92
Reject 234 125
n: 753
p: 0.0003
r: -0.13
Gender categories: preserve
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 68 302
Reject 91 248
n: 709
p: 0.0008
r: 0.13
Gender categories: revise
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 219 153
Reject 166 173
n: 711
p: 0.0008
r: -0.12
Abstract objects: Platonism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 238 357
Reject 272 276
n: 1143
p < 0.0001
r: -0.12
Grounds of intentionality: primitive
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 34 236
Reject 45 203
n: 518
p: 0.0061
r: 0.12
Properties: classes
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 40 217
Reject 26 264
n: 547
p: 0.0049
r: -0.12
Properties: transcendent universals
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 48 209
Reject 79 212
n: 548
p: 0.0057
r: 0.12
Cosmological fine-tuning: brute fact
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 112 181
Reject 94 211
n: 598
p: 0.004
r: 0.12
Justification: coherentism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 105 243
Reject 79 252
n: 679
p: 0.0024
r: 0.12
Extended mind: yes
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 213 161
Reject 170 173
n: 717
p: 0.0018
r: 0.12
Well-being: hedonism/experientialism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 63 289
Reject 34 306
n: 692
p: 0.0022
r: 0.12
Philosophical methods: conceptual engineering
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 303 355
Reject 232 358
n: 1248
p < 0.0001
r: -0.11
Knowledge claims: invariantism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 135 430
Reject 171 354
n: 1090
p < 0.0001
r: 0.11
True contradictions: actual
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 54 291
Reject 24 309
n: 678
p: 0.0036
r: 0.11
Gender: social
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 445 167
Reject 345 182
n: 1139
p: 0.0002
r: -0.11
Eating animals and animal products: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 308 347
Reject 330 271
n: 1256
p < 0.0001
r: -0.11
Normative ethics: virtue ethics
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 247 379
Reject 253 304
n: 1183
p < 0.0001
r: 0.11
Perceptual experience: representationalism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 241 242
Reject 185 270
n: 938
p: 0.0007
r: -0.11
Politics: capitalism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 122 246
Reject 137 213
n: 718
p: 0.0032
r: -0.11
Normative concepts: fit
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 17 286
Reject 33 257
n: 593
p: 0.0078
r: -0.11
Other minds: newborn babies
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 351 56
Reject 362 36
n: 805
p: 0.0019
r: 0.11
Chinese room: understands
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 89 292
Reject 56 315
n: 752
p: 0.0028
r: -0.11
True contradictions: impossible
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 246 99
Reject 276 57
n: 678
p: 0.005
r: 0.11
Response to external-world skepticism: pragmatic
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 92 246
Reject 62 285
n: 685
p: 0.0052
r: -0.11
Arguments for theism: moral
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 29 297
Reject 49 283
n: 658
p: 0.007
r: 0.1
Mental content: internalism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 192 366
Reject 132 402
n: 1092
p: 0.0006
r: 0.1
Trolley problem: switch
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 477 128
Reject 392 160
n: 1157
p: 0.0005
r: -0.1
Propositions: simple entities
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 14 264
Reject 31 263
n: 572
p: 0.0152
r: 0.1
Knowledge claims: contextualism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 363 203
Reject 271 256
n: 1093
p: 0.001
r: 0.1
Metaontology: deflationary realism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 87 163
Reject 73 189
n: 512
p: 0.0251
r: 0.1
Race: social
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 453 159
Reject 343 189
n: 1144
p: 0.001
r: -0.1
Gender: biological
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 191 415
Reject 188 337
n: 1131
p: 0.0011
r: 0.09
Vagueness: semantic
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 317 223
Reject 272 255
n: 1067
p: 0.0019
r: -0.09
Interlevel metaphysics: grounding
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 88 165
Reject 107 155
n: 515
p: 0.0317
r: 0.09
Morality: expressivism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 42 325
Reject 40 348
n: 755
p: 0.0097
r: 0.09
Gender: psychological
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 160 447
Reject 103 421
n: 1131
p: 0.0015
r: 0.09
Moral principles: moral generalism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 235 145
Reject 200 155
n: 735
p: 0.0137
r: 0.09
Properties: tropes
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 54 204
Reject 41 250
n: 549
p: 0.0357
r: -0.09
Political philosophy: communitarianism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 149 395
Reject 175 315
n: 1034
p: 0.004
r: -0.09
Immortality: yes
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 195 221
Reject 207 188
n: 811
p: 0.0114
r: -0.09
Political philosophy: libertarianism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 71 477
Reject 85 403
n: 1036
p: 0.0046
r: 0.09
Values in science: necessarily value-laden
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 171 196
Reject 137 199
n: 703
p: 0.0221
r: -0.09
Response to external-world skepticism: semantic externalist
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 30 307
Reject 38 303
n: 678
p: 0.0255
r: 0.08
Justification: infinitism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 12 332
Reject 4 323
n: 671
p: 0.0316
r: -0.08
Method in history of philosophy: analytic/rational reconstruction
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 228 120
Reject 232 96
n: 676
p: 0.0362
r: 0.08
Eating animals and animal products: veganism (no and no)
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 147 507
Reject 102 498
n: 1254
p: 0.0049
r: 0.08
External world: skepticism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 46 626
Reject 31 578
n: 1281
p: 0.0046
r: 0.08
Experience machine: yes
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 102 526
Reject 68 509
n: 1205
p: 0.0083
r: 0.07
Other minds: current AI systems
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 18 389
Reject 8 390
n: 805
p: 0.0465
r: 0.07
Truth: epistemic
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 86 525
Reject 45 520
n: 1176
p: 0.0175
r: -0.07
External world: non-skeptical realism
Personal identity: psychological view Accept Reject
Accept 572 99
Reject 533 76
n: 1280
p: 0.0159

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: -0.19
Philosopher: Aquinas
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 7 498
Reject 36 401
n: 942
p < 0.0001
r: -0.17
AOS: Philosophy of Religion
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 36 657
Reject 78 538
n: 1309
p < 0.0001
r: -0.14
Philosopher: Reid
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 5 500
Reject 25 412
n: 942
p < 0.0001
r: -0.13
Philosopher: Aristotle
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 86 419
Reject 112 325
n: 942
p < 0.0001
r: 0.12
Philosopher: Hume
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 114 391
Reject 64 373
n: 942
p: 0.0003
r: -0.1
Philosopher: Plato
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 23 482
Reject 37 400
n: 942
p: 0.003
r: -0.09
Region of nationality: United Kingdom
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 50 596
Reject 71 516
n: 1233
p: 0.0026
r: -0.09
AOS: Metaphysics
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 137 556
Reject 151 465
n: 1309
p: 0.002
r: -0.08
AOS: Epistemology
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 145 548
Reject 166 450
n: 1309
p: 0.0022
r: -0.08
Philosopher: Leibniz
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 11 494
Reject 21 416
n: 942
p: 0.0171
r: 0.08
Region of nationality: Oceania
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 48 598
Reject 23 564
n: 1233
p: 0.0079
r: 0.07
Philosopher: Carnap
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 38 467
Reject 19 418
n: 942
p: 0.0246
r: -0.07
Philosopher: Wittgenstein
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 34 471
Reject 50 387
n: 942
p: 0.0321
r: -0.06
Philosopher: Kierkegaard
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 6 499
Reject 9 428
n: 942
p: 0.049
r: 0.06
AOS: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 83 610
Reject 50 566
n: 1309
p: 0.0222
r: 0.06
Region of nationality: Latin America
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 15 631
Reject 8 579
n: 1233
p: 0.0332
r: -0.06
AOS: Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 34 659
Reject 41 575
n: 1309
p: 0.0348
r: -0.06
AOS: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 14 679
Reject 25 591
n: 1309
p: 0.0416
r: 0.05
AOS: Philosophy of Computing and Information
Personal identity: psychological view Yes No
Accept 16 677
Reject 4 612
n: 1309
p: 0.0468