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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
101 / 139 (72.7%)
Accept or lean toward: no
23 / 139 (16.5%)
Other
15 / 139 (10.8%)
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?
Accept or lean toward: nominalism
54 / 139 (38.8%)
Accept or lean toward: Platonism
44 / 139 (31.7%)
Other
41 / 139 (29.5%)
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?
Accept or lean toward: objective
70 / 139 (50.4%)
Other
35 / 139 (25.2%)
Accept or lean toward: subjective
34 / 139 (24.5%)
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?
Accept or lean toward: yes
90 / 139 (64.7%)
Accept or lean toward: no
39 / 139 (28.1%)
Other
10 / 139 (7.2%)
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?
Accept or lean toward: externalism
53 / 139 (38.1%)
Accept or lean toward: internalism
44 / 139 (31.7%)
Other
42 / 139 (30.2%)
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?
Accept or lean toward: non-skeptical realism
120 / 139 (86.3%)
Accept or lean toward: idealism
7 / 139 (5.0%)
Other
6 / 139 (4.3%)
Accept or lean toward: skepticism
6 / 139 (4.3%)
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?
Accept or lean toward: compatibilism
95 / 139 (68.3%)
Other
16 / 139 (11.5%)
Accept or lean toward: libertarianism
16 / 139 (11.5%)
Accept or lean toward: no free will
12 / 139 (8.6%)
God: theism or atheism?
Accept or lean toward: atheism
109 / 139 (78.4%)
Accept or lean toward: theism
16 / 139 (11.5%)
Other
14 / 139 (10.1%)
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?
Accept or lean toward: contextualism
62 / 139 (44.6%)
Other
39 / 139 (28.1%)
Accept or lean toward: invariantism
37 / 139 (26.6%)
Accept or lean toward: relativism
1 / 139 (0.7%)
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?
Accept or lean toward: empiricism
50 / 139 (36.0%)
Other
47 / 139 (33.8%)
Accept or lean toward: rationalism
42 / 139 (30.2%)
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?
Accept or lean toward: non-Humean
77 / 139 (55.4%)
Other
32 / 139 (23.0%)
Accept or lean toward: Humean
30 / 139 (21.6%)
Logic: classical or non-classical?
Accept or lean toward: classical
63 / 139 (45.3%)
Other
60 / 139 (43.2%)
Accept or lean toward: non-classical
16 / 139 (11.5%)
Mental content: internalism or externalism?
Accept or lean toward: externalism
72 / 139 (51.8%)
Other
39 / 139 (28.1%)
Accept or lean toward: internalism
28 / 139 (20.1%)
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?
Accept or lean toward: moral realism
87 / 139 (62.6%)
Accept or lean toward: moral anti-realism
30 / 139 (21.6%)
Other
22 / 139 (15.8%)
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?
Accept or lean toward: naturalism
60 / 139 (43.2%)
Accept or lean toward: non-naturalism
48 / 139 (34.5%)
Other
31 / 139 (22.3%)
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?
Accept or lean toward: physicalism
73 / 139 (52.5%)
Accept or lean toward: non-physicalism
39 / 139 (28.1%)
Other
27 / 139 (19.4%)
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?
Accept or lean toward: cognitivism
114 / 139 (82.0%)
Accept or lean toward: non-cognitivism
13 / 139 (9.4%)
Other
12 / 139 (8.6%)
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?
Accept or lean toward: externalism
57 / 139 (41.0%)
Accept or lean toward: internalism
52 / 139 (37.4%)
Other
30 / 139 (21.6%)
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?
Other
64 / 139 (46.0%)
Accept or lean toward: two boxes
44 / 139 (31.7%)
Accept or lean toward: one box
31 / 139 (22.3%)
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?
Accept or lean toward: deontology
49 / 139 (35.3%)
Other
41 / 139 (29.5%)
Accept or lean toward: consequentialism
32 / 139 (23.0%)
Accept or lean toward: virtue ethics
17 / 139 (12.2%)
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?
Other
79 / 139 (56.8%)
Accept or lean toward: representationalism
26 / 139 (18.7%)
Accept or lean toward: disjunctivism
15 / 139 (10.8%)
Accept or lean toward: qualia theory
14 / 139 (10.1%)
Accept or lean toward: sense-datum theory
5 / 139 (3.6%)
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?
Accept or lean toward: psychological view
63 / 139 (45.3%)
Other
40 / 139 (28.8%)
Accept or lean toward: further-fact view
19 / 139 (13.7%)
Accept or lean toward: biological view
17 / 139 (12.2%)
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?
Accept or lean toward: egalitarianism
70 / 139 (50.4%)
Other
47 / 139 (33.8%)
Accept or lean toward: libertarianism
13 / 139 (9.4%)
Accept or lean toward: communitarianism
9 / 139 (6.5%)
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?
Other
75 / 139 (54.0%)
Accept or lean toward: Millian
39 / 139 (28.1%)
Accept or lean toward: Fregean
25 / 139 (18.0%)
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?
Accept or lean toward: scientific realism
102 / 139 (73.4%)
Other
23 / 139 (16.5%)
Accept or lean toward: scientific anti-realism
14 / 139 (10.1%)
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?
Accept or lean toward: survival
56 / 139 (40.3%)
Other
42 / 139 (30.2%)
Accept or lean toward: death
41 / 139 (29.5%)
Time: A-theory or B-theory?
Other
104 / 139 (74.8%)
Accept or lean toward: B-theory
21 / 139 (15.1%)
Accept or lean toward: A-theory
14 / 139 (10.1%)
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
111 / 139 (79.9%)
Other
14 / 139 (10.1%)
Accept or lean toward: don't switch
14 / 139 (10.1%)
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?
Accept or lean toward: correspondence
62 / 139 (44.6%)
Accept or lean toward: deflationary
37 / 139 (26.6%)
Other
26 / 139 (18.7%)
Accept or lean toward: epistemic
14 / 139 (10.1%)
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?
Other
49 / 139 (35.3%)
Accept or lean toward: conceivable but not metaphysically possible
39 / 139 (28.1%)
Accept or lean toward: metaphysically possible
38 / 139 (27.3%)
Accept or lean toward: inconceivable
13 / 139 (9.4%)
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