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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
124 / 160 (77.5%)
Accept or lean toward: no
22 / 160 (13.8%)
Other
14 / 160 (8.8%)
Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?
Accept or lean toward: Platonism
75 / 160 (46.9%)
Accept or lean toward: nominalism
51 / 160 (31.9%)
Other
34 / 160 (21.2%)
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?
Accept or lean toward: objective
64 / 160 (40.0%)
Accept or lean toward: subjective
60 / 160 (37.5%)
Other
36 / 160 (22.5%)
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?
Accept or lean toward: yes
110 / 160 (68.8%)
Accept or lean toward: no
35 / 160 (21.9%)
Other
15 / 160 (9.4%)
Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?
Accept or lean toward: internalism
59 / 160 (36.9%)
Accept or lean toward: externalism
56 / 160 (35.0%)
Other
45 / 160 (28.1%)
External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?
Accept or lean toward: non-skeptical realism
135 / 160 (84.4%)
Accept or lean toward: skepticism
15 / 160 (9.4%)
Other
7 / 160 (4.4%)
Accept or lean toward: idealism
3 / 160 (1.9%)
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?
Accept or lean toward: compatibilism
98 / 160 (61.2%)
Accept or lean toward: libertarianism
27 / 160 (16.9%)
Accept or lean toward: no free will
18 / 160 (11.2%)
Other
17 / 160 (10.6%)
God: theism or atheism?
Accept or lean toward: atheism
125 / 160 (78.1%)
Other
19 / 160 (11.9%)
Accept or lean toward: theism
16 / 160 (10.0%)
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?
Accept or lean toward: invariantism
79 / 160 (49.4%)
Accept or lean toward: contextualism
47 / 160 (29.4%)
Other
26 / 160 (16.2%)
Accept or lean toward: relativism
8 / 160 (5.0%)
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?
Other
65 / 160 (40.6%)
Accept or lean toward: rationalism
53 / 160 (33.1%)
Accept or lean toward: empiricism
42 / 160 (26.2%)
Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?
Accept or lean toward: non-Humean
101 / 160 (63.1%)
Accept or lean toward: Humean
32 / 160 (20.0%)
Other
27 / 160 (16.9%)
Logic: classical or non-classical?
Accept or lean toward: classical
101 / 160 (63.1%)
Other
40 / 160 (25.0%)
Accept or lean toward: non-classical
19 / 160 (11.9%)
Mental content: internalism or externalism?
Accept or lean toward: externalism
85 / 160 (53.1%)
Accept or lean toward: internalism
39 / 160 (24.4%)
Other
36 / 160 (22.5%)
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?
Accept or lean toward: moral realism
98 / 160 (61.2%)
Accept or lean toward: moral anti-realism
46 / 160 (28.8%)
Other
16 / 160 (10.0%)
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?
Accept or lean toward: naturalism
76 / 160 (47.5%)
Other
42 / 160 (26.2%)
Accept or lean toward: non-naturalism
42 / 160 (26.2%)
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?
Accept or lean toward: physicalism
94 / 160 (58.8%)
Accept or lean toward: non-physicalism
42 / 160 (26.2%)
Other
24 / 160 (15.0%)
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?
Accept or lean toward: cognitivism
114 / 160 (71.2%)
Accept or lean toward: non-cognitivism
25 / 160 (15.6%)
Other
21 / 160 (13.1%)
Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?
Other
58 / 160 (36.2%)
Accept or lean toward: externalism
54 / 160 (33.8%)
Accept or lean toward: internalism
48 / 160 (30.0%)
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?
Accept or lean toward: two boxes
68 / 160 (42.5%)
Other
62 / 160 (38.8%)
Accept or lean toward: one box
30 / 160 (18.8%)
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?
Other
53 / 160 (33.1%)
Accept or lean toward: deontology
45 / 160 (28.1%)
Accept or lean toward: consequentialism
36 / 160 (22.5%)
Accept or lean toward: virtue ethics
26 / 160 (16.2%)
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?
Other
57 / 160 (35.6%)
Accept or lean toward: representationalism
53 / 160 (33.1%)
Accept or lean toward: disjunctivism
25 / 160 (15.6%)
Accept or lean toward: qualia theory
20 / 160 (12.5%)
Accept or lean toward: sense-datum theory
5 / 160 (3.1%)
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?
Other
62 / 160 (38.8%)
Accept or lean toward: psychological view
52 / 160 (32.5%)
Accept or lean toward: biological view
26 / 160 (16.2%)
Accept or lean toward: further-fact view
20 / 160 (12.5%)
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?
Other
70 / 160 (43.8%)
Accept or lean toward: egalitarianism
53 / 160 (33.1%)
Accept or lean toward: communitarianism
20 / 160 (12.5%)
Accept or lean toward: libertarianism
17 / 160 (10.6%)
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?
Accept or lean toward: Millian
62 / 160 (38.8%)
Accept or lean toward: Fregean
53 / 160 (33.1%)
Other
45 / 160 (28.1%)
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?
Accept or lean toward: scientific realism
135 / 160 (84.4%)
Other
14 / 160 (8.8%)
Accept or lean toward: scientific anti-realism
11 / 160 (6.9%)
Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?
Accept or lean toward: survival
61 / 160 (38.1%)
Accept or lean toward: death
56 / 160 (35.0%)
Other
43 / 160 (26.9%)
Time: A-theory or B-theory?
Other
94 / 160 (58.8%)
Accept or lean toward: B-theory
35 / 160 (21.9%)
Accept or lean toward: A-theory
31 / 160 (19.4%)
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
114 / 160 (71.2%)
Other
39 / 160 (24.4%)
Accept or lean toward: don't switch
7 / 160 (4.4%)
Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?
Accept or lean toward: correspondence
100 / 160 (62.5%)
Accept or lean toward: deflationary
32 / 160 (20.0%)
Other
21 / 160 (13.1%)
Accept or lean toward: epistemic
7 / 160 (4.4%)
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?
Accept or lean toward: conceivable but not metaphysically possible
61 / 160 (38.1%)
Accept or lean toward: metaphysically possible
42 / 160 (26.2%)
Other
36 / 160 (22.5%)
Accept or lean toward: inconceivable
21 / 160 (13.1%)
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