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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
294 / 414 (71.0%)
Accept or lean toward: no
89 / 414 (21.5%)
Other
31 / 414 (7.5%)
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?
Accept or lean toward: nominalism
167 / 414 (40.3%)
Accept or lean toward: Platonism
151 / 414 (36.5%)
Other
96 / 414 (23.2%)
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?
Accept or lean toward: objective
159 / 414 (38.4%)
Accept or lean toward: subjective
153 / 414 (37.0%)
Other
102 / 414 (24.6%)
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?
Accept or lean toward: yes
255 / 414 (61.6%)
Accept or lean toward: no
133 / 414 (32.1%)
Other
26 / 414 (6.3%)
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?
Accept or lean toward: externalism
207 / 414 (50.0%)
Accept or lean toward: internalism
109 / 414 (26.3%)
Other
98 / 414 (23.7%)
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?
Accept or lean toward: non-skeptical realism
335 / 414 (80.9%)
Other
36 / 414 (8.7%)
Accept or lean toward: skepticism
28 / 414 (6.8%)
Accept or lean toward: idealism
15 / 414 (3.6%)
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?
Accept or lean toward: compatibilism
256 / 414 (61.8%)
Accept or lean toward: no free will
59 / 414 (14.3%)
Accept or lean toward: libertarianism
51 / 414 (12.3%)
Other
48 / 414 (11.6%)
God: theism or atheism?
Accept or lean toward: atheism
325 / 414 (78.5%)
Other
52 / 414 (12.6%)
Accept or lean toward: theism
37 / 414 (8.9%)
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?
Accept or lean toward: contextualism
157 / 414 (37.9%)
Accept or lean toward: invariantism
148 / 414 (35.7%)
Other
92 / 414 (22.2%)
Accept or lean toward: relativism
17 / 414 (4.1%)
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?
Accept or lean toward: empiricism
165 / 414 (39.9%)
Other
145 / 414 (35.0%)
Accept or lean toward: rationalism
104 / 414 (25.1%)
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?
Accept or lean toward: non-Humean
227 / 414 (54.8%)
Accept or lean toward: Humean
115 / 414 (27.8%)
Other
72 / 414 (17.4%)
Logic: classical or non-classical?
Accept or lean toward: classical
206 / 414 (49.8%)
Other
132 / 414 (31.9%)
Accept or lean toward: non-classical
76 / 414 (18.4%)
Mental content: internalism or externalism?
Accept or lean toward: externalism
235 / 414 (56.8%)
Accept or lean toward: internalism
91 / 414 (22.0%)
Other
88 / 414 (21.3%)
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?
Accept or lean toward: moral realism
248 / 414 (59.9%)
Accept or lean toward: moral anti-realism
101 / 414 (24.4%)
Other
65 / 414 (15.7%)
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?
Accept or lean toward: naturalism
256 / 414 (61.8%)
Other
88 / 414 (21.3%)
Accept or lean toward: non-naturalism
70 / 414 (16.9%)
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?
Accept or lean toward: physicalism
248 / 414 (59.9%)
Accept or lean toward: non-physicalism
105 / 414 (25.4%)
Other
61 / 414 (14.7%)
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?
Accept or lean toward: cognitivism
253 / 414 (61.1%)
Other
83 / 414 (20.0%)
Accept or lean toward: non-cognitivism
78 / 414 (18.8%)
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?
Accept or lean toward: internalism
159 / 414 (38.4%)
Other
133 / 414 (32.1%)
Accept or lean toward: externalism
122 / 414 (29.5%)
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?
Other
243 / 414 (58.7%)
Accept or lean toward: two boxes
92 / 414 (22.2%)
Accept or lean toward: one box
79 / 414 (19.1%)
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?
Other
136 / 414 (32.9%)
Accept or lean toward: consequentialism
111 / 414 (26.8%)
Accept or lean toward: virtue ethics
85 / 414 (20.5%)
Accept or lean toward: deontology
82 / 414 (19.8%)
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?
Accept or lean toward: representationalism
172 / 414 (41.5%)
Other
90 / 414 (21.7%)
Accept or lean toward: qualia theory
73 / 414 (17.6%)
Accept or lean toward: disjunctivism
63 / 414 (15.2%)
Accept or lean toward: sense-datum theory
16 / 414 (3.9%)
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?
Accept or lean toward: psychological view
182 / 414 (44.0%)
Other
111 / 414 (26.8%)
Accept or lean toward: biological view
83 / 414 (20.0%)
Accept or lean toward: further-fact view
38 / 414 (9.2%)
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?
Other
159 / 414 (38.4%)
Accept or lean toward: egalitarianism
135 / 414 (32.6%)
Accept or lean toward: communitarianism
68 / 414 (16.4%)
Accept or lean toward: libertarianism
52 / 414 (12.6%)
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?
Accept or lean toward: Fregean
151 / 414 (36.5%)
Accept or lean toward: Millian
146 / 414 (35.3%)
Other
117 / 414 (28.3%)
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?
Accept or lean toward: scientific realism
325 / 414 (78.5%)
Other
49 / 414 (11.8%)
Accept or lean toward: scientific anti-realism
40 / 414 (9.7%)
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?
Accept or lean toward: survival
163 / 414 (39.4%)
Accept or lean toward: death
153 / 414 (37.0%)
Other
98 / 414 (23.7%)
Time: A-theory or B-theory?
Other
234 / 414 (56.5%)
Accept or lean toward: B-theory
102 / 414 (24.6%)
Accept or lean toward: A-theory
78 / 414 (18.8%)
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
285 / 414 (68.8%)
Other
96 / 414 (23.2%)
Accept or lean toward: don't switch
33 / 414 (8.0%)
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?
Accept or lean toward: correspondence
240 / 414 (58.0%)
Accept or lean toward: deflationary
81 / 414 (19.6%)
Other
56 / 414 (13.5%)
Accept or lean toward: epistemic
37 / 414 (8.9%)
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?
Accept or lean toward: conceivable but not metaphysically possible
181 / 414 (43.7%)
Accept or lean toward: inconceivable
102 / 414 (24.6%)
Accept or lean toward: metaphysically possible
84 / 414 (20.3%)
Other
47 / 414 (11.4%)
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