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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
345 / 502 (68.7%)
Accept or lean toward: no
117 / 502 (23.3%)
Other
40 / 502 (8.0%)
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?
Accept or lean toward: Platonism
200 / 502 (39.8%)
Accept or lean toward: nominalism
190 / 502 (37.8%)
Other
112 / 502 (22.3%)
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?
Accept or lean toward: subjective
211 / 502 (42.0%)
Accept or lean toward: objective
181 / 502 (36.1%)
Other
110 / 502 (21.9%)
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?
Accept or lean toward: yes
319 / 502 (63.5%)
Accept or lean toward: no
145 / 502 (28.9%)
Other
38 / 502 (7.6%)
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?
Accept or lean toward: externalism
240 / 502 (47.8%)
Other
132 / 502 (26.3%)
Accept or lean toward: internalism
130 / 502 (25.9%)
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?
Accept or lean toward: non-skeptical realism
406 / 502 (80.9%)
Other
45 / 502 (9.0%)
Accept or lean toward: skepticism
27 / 502 (5.4%)
Accept or lean toward: idealism
24 / 502 (4.8%)
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?
Accept or lean toward: compatibilism
295 / 502 (58.8%)
Other
78 / 502 (15.5%)
Accept or lean toward: no free will
68 / 502 (13.5%)
Accept or lean toward: libertarianism
61 / 502 (12.2%)
God: theism or atheism?
Accept or lean toward: atheism
370 / 502 (73.7%)
Other
67 / 502 (13.3%)
Accept or lean toward: theism
65 / 502 (12.9%)
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?
Accept or lean toward: contextualism
209 / 502 (41.6%)
Accept or lean toward: invariantism
159 / 502 (31.7%)
Other
107 / 502 (21.3%)
Accept or lean toward: relativism
27 / 502 (5.4%)
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?
Other
182 / 502 (36.3%)
Accept or lean toward: empiricism
177 / 502 (35.3%)
Accept or lean toward: rationalism
143 / 502 (28.5%)
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?
Accept or lean toward: non-Humean
243 / 502 (48.4%)
Accept or lean toward: Humean
159 / 502 (31.7%)
Other
100 / 502 (19.9%)
Logic: classical or non-classical?
Accept or lean toward: classical
251 / 502 (50.0%)
Other
139 / 502 (27.7%)
Accept or lean toward: non-classical
112 / 502 (22.3%)
Mental content: internalism or externalism?
Accept or lean toward: externalism
279 / 502 (55.6%)
Other
118 / 502 (23.5%)
Accept or lean toward: internalism
105 / 502 (20.9%)
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?
Accept or lean toward: moral realism
266 / 502 (53.0%)
Accept or lean toward: moral anti-realism
153 / 502 (30.5%)
Other
83 / 502 (16.5%)
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?
Accept or lean toward: naturalism
244 / 502 (48.6%)
Accept or lean toward: non-naturalism
133 / 502 (26.5%)
Other
125 / 502 (24.9%)
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?
Accept or lean toward: physicalism
290 / 502 (57.8%)
Accept or lean toward: non-physicalism
136 / 502 (27.1%)
Other
76 / 502 (15.1%)
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?
Accept or lean toward: cognitivism
290 / 502 (57.8%)
Accept or lean toward: non-cognitivism
108 / 502 (21.5%)
Other
104 / 502 (20.7%)
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?
Other
193 / 502 (38.4%)
Accept or lean toward: internalism
172 / 502 (34.3%)
Accept or lean toward: externalism
137 / 502 (27.3%)
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?
Other
255 / 502 (50.8%)
Accept or lean toward: two boxes
133 / 502 (26.5%)
Accept or lean toward: one box
114 / 502 (22.7%)
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?
Other
163 / 502 (32.5%)
Accept or lean toward: consequentialism
133 / 502 (26.5%)
Accept or lean toward: virtue ethics
103 / 502 (20.5%)
Accept or lean toward: deontology
103 / 502 (20.5%)
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?
Other
193 / 502 (38.4%)
Accept or lean toward: representationalism
162 / 502 (32.3%)
Accept or lean toward: qualia theory
63 / 502 (12.5%)
Accept or lean toward: disjunctivism
61 / 502 (12.2%)
Accept or lean toward: sense-datum theory
23 / 502 (4.6%)
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?
Other
200 / 502 (39.8%)
Accept or lean toward: psychological view
156 / 502 (31.1%)
Accept or lean toward: biological view
89 / 502 (17.7%)
Accept or lean toward: further-fact view
57 / 502 (11.4%)
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?
Other
214 / 502 (42.6%)
Accept or lean toward: egalitarianism
135 / 502 (26.9%)
Accept or lean toward: communitarianism
82 / 502 (16.3%)
Accept or lean toward: libertarianism
71 / 502 (14.1%)
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?
Accept or lean toward: Millian
200 / 502 (39.8%)
Accept or lean toward: Fregean
184 / 502 (36.7%)
Other
118 / 502 (23.5%)
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?
Accept or lean toward: scientific realism
356 / 502 (70.9%)
Accept or lean toward: scientific anti-realism
85 / 502 (16.9%)
Other
61 / 502 (12.2%)
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?
Accept or lean toward: survival
181 / 502 (36.1%)
Other
178 / 502 (35.5%)
Accept or lean toward: death
143 / 502 (28.5%)
Time: A-theory or B-theory?
Other
284 / 502 (56.6%)
Accept or lean toward: B-theory
136 / 502 (27.1%)
Accept or lean toward: A-theory
82 / 502 (16.3%)
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
325 / 502 (64.7%)
Other
132 / 502 (26.3%)
Accept or lean toward: don't switch
45 / 502 (9.0%)
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?
Accept or lean toward: correspondence
248 / 502 (49.4%)
Accept or lean toward: deflationary
123 / 502 (24.5%)
Other
88 / 502 (17.5%)
Accept or lean toward: epistemic
43 / 502 (8.6%)
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?
Accept or lean toward: conceivable but not metaphysically possible
188 / 502 (37.5%)
Accept or lean toward: metaphysically possible
110 / 502 (21.9%)
Accept or lean toward: inconceivable
107 / 502 (21.3%)
Other
97 / 502 (19.3%)
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