Introduction

This is a survey of professional philosophers and others, concerning their views on the distribution of philosophical views within the profession.

For each of the 30 questions on the Philosophical Survey (which you should have already answered), we will ask for your prediction about the percentage of respondents in the target population who will either "accept" or "lean toward" each one of the main options (with acceptances and leanings grouped together), or that will choose one of the "other" alternatives (including skipping the questions).

The target population includes the regular faculty members (about 2000 altogether) in 99 leading departments of philosophy: 62 in the US, 18 in the UK, 7 each in Canada and in Europe outside the UK, and 5 in Australasia. The full list of departments is here.

You may skip a question if you choose to. However, we encourage you to answer as many of these questions as you can.

Use of information

Your answers will be available to the small PhilPapers research team, and to a limited number of other researchers with whom we may share our data (with names stripped out). We will use the information you provide to calculate statistics concerning the body of answers to the survey as a whole. We may publicly release such statistics. At the end of the survey we will ask for your consent to use your answers in this way. Your answers will not be publicly associated with any identifying information.

Important: Your answers will not count toward our statistics unless you consent to this explictly at the end of the survey on the Background & Consent page.

For further information regarding the purpose and methodology of the survey and regarding privacy issues, see our information page (opens in new window).

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