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The PhilPapers Surveys
Preliminary Survey results
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Note: set response grain to "fine" for details on "other" responses.
Population
AOS
Response details
All respondents
Target faculty
Philosophy faculty or PhD
Philosophy faculty/PhD, non-target
Philosophy graduate student
Philosophy undergraduate
No philosophy affiliation listed
All respondents
17th/18th Century Philosophy
19th Century Philosophy
20th Century Philosophy
Aesthetics
African/Africana Philosophy
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
Applied Ethics
Arts and Humanities
Asian Philosophy
Cognitive Sciences
Continental Philosophy
Decision Theory
Epistemology
Formal Sciences
General Philosophy of Science
Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Meta-Ethics
Metaphilosophy
Metaphysics
Natural Sciences
Normative Ethics
Philosophy of Action
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Philosophy of Computing and Information
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Law
Philosophy of Mathematics
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Physical Science
Philosophy of Probability
Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Social Science
Philosophy of the Americas
Philosophy, General Works
Philosophy, Introductions and Anthologies
Professional Areas
Social and Political Philosophy
Social Sciences
Teaching Philosophy
coarse
medium
fine
A priori knowledge: yes or no?
Accept or lean toward: yes
2147 / 3226 (66.6%)
Accept or lean toward: no
770 / 3226 (23.9%)
Other
309 / 3226 (9.6%)
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?
Accept or lean toward: nominalism
1454 / 3226 (45.1%)
Accept or lean toward: Platonism
1016 / 3226 (31.5%)
Other
756 / 3226 (23.4%)
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?
Accept or lean toward: subjective
1349 / 3226 (41.8%)
Accept or lean toward: objective
1122 / 3226 (34.8%)
Other
755 / 3226 (23.4%)
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?
Accept or lean toward: yes
1886 / 3226 (58.5%)
Accept or lean toward: no
937 / 3226 (29.0%)
Other
403 / 3226 (12.5%)
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?
Accept or lean toward: externalism
1368 / 3226 (42.4%)
Other
994 / 3226 (30.8%)
Accept or lean toward: internalism
864 / 3226 (26.8%)
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?
Accept or lean toward: non-skeptical realism
2305 / 3226 (71.5%)
Other
356 / 3226 (11.0%)
Accept or lean toward: skepticism
310 / 3226 (9.6%)
Accept or lean toward: idealism
255 / 3226 (7.9%)
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?
Accept or lean toward: compatibilism
1661 / 3226 (51.5%)
Accept or lean toward: libertarianism
591 / 3226 (18.3%)
Accept or lean toward: no free will
491 / 3226 (15.2%)
Other
483 / 3226 (15.0%)
God: theism or atheism?
Accept or lean toward: atheism
2136 / 3226 (66.2%)
Accept or lean toward: theism
599 / 3226 (18.6%)
Other
491 / 3226 (15.2%)
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?
Accept or lean toward: contextualism
1366 / 3226 (42.3%)
Other
887 / 3226 (27.5%)
Accept or lean toward: invariantism
772 / 3226 (23.9%)
Accept or lean toward: relativism
201 / 3226 (6.2%)
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?
Accept or lean toward: empiricism
1254 / 3226 (38.9%)
Other
1158 / 3226 (35.9%)
Accept or lean toward: rationalism
814 / 3226 (25.2%)
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?
Accept or lean toward: non-Humean
1472 / 3226 (45.6%)
Accept or lean toward: Humean
1027 / 3226 (31.8%)
Other
727 / 3226 (22.5%)
Logic: classical or non-classical?
Accept or lean toward: classical
1432 / 3226 (44.4%)
Other
1143 / 3226 (35.4%)
Accept or lean toward: non-classical
651 / 3226 (20.2%)
Mental content: internalism or externalism?
Accept or lean toward: externalism
1404 / 3226 (43.5%)
Other
992 / 3226 (30.8%)
Accept or lean toward: internalism
830 / 3226 (25.7%)
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?
Accept or lean toward: moral realism
1694 / 3226 (52.5%)
Accept or lean toward: moral anti-realism
997 / 3226 (30.9%)
Other
535 / 3226 (16.6%)
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?
Accept or lean toward: naturalism
1619 / 3226 (50.2%)
Accept or lean toward: non-naturalism
826 / 3226 (25.6%)
Other
781 / 3226 (24.2%)
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?
Accept or lean toward: physicalism
1741 / 3226 (54.0%)
Accept or lean toward: non-physicalism
941 / 3226 (29.2%)
Other
544 / 3226 (16.9%)
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?
Accept or lean toward: cognitivism
1872 / 3226 (58.0%)
Other
683 / 3226 (21.2%)
Accept or lean toward: non-cognitivism
671 / 3226 (20.8%)
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?
Accept or lean toward: internalism
1155 / 3226 (35.8%)
Other
1154 / 3226 (35.8%)
Accept or lean toward: externalism
917 / 3226 (28.4%)
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?
Other
1890 / 3226 (58.6%)
Accept or lean toward: two boxes
708 / 3226 (21.9%)
Accept or lean toward: one box
628 / 3226 (19.5%)
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?
Other
980 / 3226 (30.4%)
Accept or lean toward: virtue ethics
804 / 3226 (24.9%)
Accept or lean toward: consequentialism
786 / 3226 (24.4%)
Accept or lean toward: deontology
656 / 3226 (20.3%)
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?
Other
1399 / 3226 (43.4%)
Accept or lean toward: representationalism
844 / 3226 (26.2%)
Accept or lean toward: qualia theory
435 / 3226 (13.5%)
Accept or lean toward: disjunctivism
358 / 3226 (11.1%)
Accept or lean toward: sense-datum theory
190 / 3226 (5.9%)
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?
Other
1231 / 3226 (38.2%)
Accept or lean toward: psychological view
1071 / 3226 (33.2%)
Accept or lean toward: biological view
517 / 3226 (16.0%)
Accept or lean toward: further-fact view
407 / 3226 (12.6%)
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?
Other
1129 / 3226 (35.0%)
Accept or lean toward: egalitarianism
974 / 3226 (30.2%)
Accept or lean toward: communitarianism
582 / 3226 (18.0%)
Accept or lean toward: libertarianism
541 / 3226 (16.8%)
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?
Other
1374 / 3226 (42.6%)
Accept or lean toward: Fregean
1001 / 3226 (31.0%)
Accept or lean toward: Millian
851 / 3226 (26.4%)
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?
Accept or lean toward: scientific realism
2121 / 3226 (65.7%)
Accept or lean toward: scientific anti-realism
577 / 3226 (17.9%)
Other
528 / 3226 (16.4%)
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?
Other
1154 / 3226 (35.8%)
Accept or lean toward: survival
1117 / 3226 (34.6%)
Accept or lean toward: death
955 / 3226 (29.6%)
Time: A-theory or B-theory?
Other
2022 / 3226 (62.7%)
Accept or lean toward: B-theory
708 / 3226 (21.9%)
Accept or lean toward: A-theory
496 / 3226 (15.4%)
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
2016 / 3226 (62.5%)
Other
923 / 3226 (28.6%)
Accept or lean toward: don't switch
287 / 3226 (8.9%)
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?
Accept or lean toward: correspondence
1450 / 3226 (44.9%)
Accept or lean toward: deflationary
670 / 3226 (20.8%)
Other
659 / 3226 (20.4%)
Accept or lean toward: epistemic
447 / 3226 (13.9%)
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?
Accept or lean toward: conceivable but not metaphysically possible
1139 / 3226 (35.3%)
Accept or lean toward: metaphysically possible
777 / 3226 (24.1%)
Other
703 / 3226 (21.8%)
Accept or lean toward: inconceivable
607 / 3226 (18.8%)
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