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Monday, March 28, 2011

Survey Results: Philosophical Beliefs

The PhilPapers Survey was a survey of professional philosophers and others on their philosophical views, carried out in November 2009. The Survey was taken by 3226 respondents, including 1803 philosophy faculty members and/or PhDs and 829 philosophy graduate students.


Found on: fragments of consciousness in this post

If interested check out the correlations as well: http://philpapers.org/surveys/linear_most.pl

a priori knowledge: yes or no?

Accept or lean toward: yes662 / 931 (71.1%)
Accept or lean toward: no171 / 931 (18.3%)
Other98 / 931 (10.5%)

Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism?

Accept or lean toward: Platonism366 / 931 (39.3%)
Accept or lean toward: nominalism351 / 931 (37.7%)
Other214 / 931 (22.9%)

Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?

Accept or lean toward: objective382 / 931 (41%)
Accept or lean toward: subjective321 / 931 (34.4%)
Other228 / 931 (24.4%)

Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?

Accept or lean toward: yes604 / 931 (64.8%)
Accept or lean toward: no252 / 931 (27%)
Other75 / 931 (8%)

Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?

Accept or lean toward: externalism398 / 931 (42.7%)
Other287 / 931 (30.8%)
Accept or lean toward: internalism246 / 931 (26.4%)

External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism?

Accept or lean toward: non-skeptical realism760 / 931 (81.6%)
Other86 / 931 (9.2%)
Accept or lean toward: skepticism45 / 931 (4.8%)
Accept or lean toward: idealism40 / 931 (4.2%)

Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?

Accept or lean toward: compatibilism550 / 931 (59%)
Other139 / 931 (14.9%)
Accept or lean toward: libertarianism128 / 931 (13.7%)
Accept or lean toward: no free will114 / 931 (12.2%)

God: theism or atheism?

Accept or lean toward: atheism678 / 931 (72.8%)
Accept or lean toward: theism136 / 931 (14.6%)
Other117 / 931 (12.5%)

Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?

Accept or lean toward: contextualism373 / 931 (40%)
Accept or lean toward: invariantism290 / 931 (31.1%)
Other241 / 931 (25.8%)
Accept or lean toward: relativism27 / 931 (2.9%)

Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?

Other346 / 931 (37.1%)
Accept or lean toward: empiricism326 / 931 (35%)
Accept or lean toward: rationalism259 / 931 (27.8%)

Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean?

Accept or lean toward: non-Humean532 / 931 (57.1%)
Accept or lean toward: Humean230 / 931 (24.7%)
Other169 / 931 (18.1%)

Logic: classical or non-classical?

Accept or lean toward: classical480 / 931 (51.5%)
Other308 / 931 (33%)
Accept or lean toward: non-classical143 / 931 (15.3%)

Mental content: internalism or externalism?

Accept or lean toward: externalism476 / 931 (51.1%)
Other269 / 931 (28.8%)
Accept or lean toward: internalism186 / 931 (19.9%)

Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?

Accept or lean toward: moral realism525 / 931 (56.3%)
Accept or lean toward: moral anti-realism258 / 931 (27.7%)
Other148 / 931 (15.8%)

Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?

Accept or lean toward: naturalism464 / 931 (49.8%)
Accept or lean toward: non-naturalism241 / 931 (25.8%)
Other226 / 931 (24.2%)

Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?

Accept or lean toward: physicalism526 / 931 (56.4%)
Accept or lean toward: non-physicalism252 / 931 (27%)
Other153 / 931 (16.4%)

Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?

Accept or lean toward: cognitivism612 / 931 (65.7%)
Other161 / 931 (17.2%)
Accept or lean toward: non-cognitivism158 / 931 (16.9%)

Moral motivation: internalism or externalism?

Other329 / 931 (35.3%)
Accept or lean toward: internalism325 / 931 (34.9%)
Accept or lean toward: externalism277 / 931 (29.7%)

Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?

Other441 / 931 (47.3%)
Accept or lean toward: two boxes292 / 931 (31.3%)
Accept or lean toward: one box198 / 931 (21.2%)

Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?

Other301 / 931 (32.3%)
Accept or lean toward: deontology241 / 931 (25.8%)
Accept or lean toward: consequentialism220 / 931 (23.6%)
Accept or lean toward: virtue ethics169 / 931 (18.1%)

Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?

Other393 / 931 (42.2%)
Accept or lean toward: representationalism293 / 931 (31.4%)
Accept or lean toward: qualia theory114 / 931 (12.2%)
Accept or lean toward: disjunctivism102 / 931 (10.9%)
Accept or lean toward: sense-datum theory29 / 931 (3.1%)

Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?

Other347 / 931 (37.2%)
Accept or lean toward: psychological view313 / 931 (33.6%)
Accept or lean toward: biological view157 / 931 (16.8%)
Accept or lean toward: further-fact view114 / 931 (12.2%)

Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?

Other382 / 931 (41%)
Accept or lean toward: egalitarianism324 / 931 (34.8%)
Accept or lean toward: communitarianism133 / 931 (14.2%)
Accept or lean toward: libertarianism92 / 931 (9.8%)

Proper names: Fregean or Millian?

Other343 / 931 (36.8%)
Accept or lean toward: Millian321 / 931 (34.4%)
Accept or lean toward: Fregean267 / 931 (28.6%)

Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?

Accept or lean toward: scientific realism699 / 931 (75%)
Other124 / 931 (13.3%)
Accept or lean toward: scientific anti-realism108 / 931 (11.6%)

Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death?

Accept or lean toward: survival337 / 931 (36.1%)
Other304 / 931 (32.6%)
Accept or lean toward: death290 / 931 (31.1%)

Time: A-theory or B-theory?

Other542 / 931 (58.2%)
Accept or lean toward: B-theory245 / 931 (26.3%)
Accept or lean toward: A-theory144 / 931 (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: switch635 / 931 (68.2%)
Other225 / 931 (24.1%)
Accept or lean toward: don't switch71 / 931 (7.6%)

Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic?

Accept or lean toward: correspondence473 / 931 (50.8%)
Accept or lean toward: deflationary231 / 931 (24.8%)
Other163 / 931 (17.5%)
Accept or lean toward: epistemic64 / 931 (6.8%)

Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?

Accept or lean toward: conceivable but not metaphysically possible331 / 931 (35.5%)
Other234 / 931 (25.1%)
Accept or lean toward: metaphysically possible217 / 931 (23.3%)
Accept or lean toward: inconceivable149 / 931 (16%)

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