The PhilPapers Surveys Results, Analysis and Discussion
The PhilPapers Survey was a survey of
professional philosophers and others on their philosophical views, carried
out in November 2009.
The Survey was taken by 3226 respondents, including 1803 philosophy
faculty members and/or PhDs and 829 philosophy graduate students.
The PhilPapers Metasurvey was a concurrent survey of professional philosophers and others concerning their predictions of the results of the Survey. The Metasurvey was taken by 727 respondents including 438 professional philosophers and PhDs and 210 philosophy graduate students.
Preliminary results and discussion are included below. Further results and analysis will be made available in coming months.
Results
- PhilPapers Survey: Preliminary results
- PhilPapers Metasurvey: Preliminary results
- Demographic statistics
- Geographical effects (coming soon)
- Age and gender effects (coming soon)
- Inter-question correlations (coming soon)
- Factor analysis (coming soon)
Discussion and analysis
- On the conception and design of the Survey: Editors' thoughts
- On the results of the Survey: Editors' thoughts
- Statistical analysis of results (coming soon)
- Discussion forum (or see below)
Survey materials
- Original Survey (pdf)
- Original Metasurvey (pdf)
- Original information page
- Questions and answer options
- Target departments
Discussion forum
PhilPapers Surveys (threads)
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Discussions of Survey results elsewhere on the web
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David Chalmers 2009-12-10 |
Carlo Penco 2010-01-10 |
8 |
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Surveys of experts in other fields (economics, physics, biology, etc.)
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Luke Muehlhauser 2010-01-03 |
No follow-ups | 1 |
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Missing Questions?
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Brent Allsop 2010-01-03 |
No follow-ups | 1 |
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Overestimating or Underestimating the Proportion Who Agree with You
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Eric Schwitzgebel 2009-12-11 |
Eric Schwitzgebel 2009-12-30 |
5 |
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Effects of specialization
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David Chalmers 2009-12-13 |
Mark Povich 2009-12-29 |
6 |
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Eye-openers in the Survey results?
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David Bourget 2009-12-08 |
Panu Raatikainen 2009-12-18 |
23 |
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Switching the Trolley
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Eric Schwitzgebel 2009-12-09 |
Mark van Roojen 2009-12-17 |
22 |
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Eastern Philosophers
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Pohlan Song 2009-12-16 |
David Chalmers 2009-12-16 |
2 |
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Is it possible to ask the survey team for further correlations/regressions?
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Vlastimil Vohánka 2009-12-09 |
Vlastimil Vohánka 2009-12-16 |
8 |
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Theism, Atheism, Agnosticism?
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Noam Zohar 2009-12-13 |
Derek Allan 2009-12-15 |
20 |
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Comments
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Anderson Brown 2009-12-14 |
David Chalmers 2009-12-14 |
2 |
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Graduate students vs. faculty
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David Chalmers 2009-12-09 |
David Cheely 2009-12-14 |
6 |
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How did you do on the Metasurvey?
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David Chalmers 2009-12-08 |
John Maier 2009-12-14 |
18 |
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Survey questions sorted by degree of consensus
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Geoff Milburn 2009-12-11 |
No follow-ups | 1 |
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Will you survey again?
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Anderson Brown 2009-12-09 |
Michael Bishop 2009-12-10 |
3 |
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Discuss PhilPapers Survey results here
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David Chalmers 2009-12-08 |
Cliff Landesman 2009-12-10 |
5 |
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Political Affiliation and the Existence of an External World
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Eric Schwitzgebel 2009-12-09 |
No follow-ups | 1 |
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Normative Ethics
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Andrew Kunsak 2009-12-08 |
Ignasi Llobera 2009-12-09 |
3 |
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Metaphysics
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Raul Saucedo 2009-12-09 |
No follow-ups | 1 |
