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General search Category finder Search syntax | advanced search The PhilPapers Surveys Preliminary Survey results (Back to contents) Note: set response grain to "fine" for details on "other" responses. Population AOS Response details Target faculty All respondents coarse Refresh A priori knowledge: yes or no? Accept or lean toward: yes 662 / 931 (71.1%) Accept or lean toward: no 171 / 931 (18.4%) Other 98 / 931 (10.5%) Abstract objects: Platonism or nominalism? Accept or lean toward: Platonism 366 / 931 (39.3%) Accept or lean toward: nominalism 351 / 931 (37.7%) Other 214 / 931 (23.0%) Aesthetic value: objective or subjective? Accept or lean toward: objective 382 / 931 (41.0%) Accept or lean toward: subjective 321 / 931 (34.5%) Other 228 / 931 (24.5%) Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no? Accept or lean toward: yes 604 / 931 (64.9%) Accept or lean toward: no 252 / 931 (27.1%) Other 75 / 931 (8.1%) Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? Accept or lean toward: externalism 398 / 931 (42.7%) Other 287 / 931 (30.8%) Accept or lean toward: internalism 246 / 931 (26.4%) External world: idealism, skepticism, or non-skeptical realism? Accept or lean toward: non-skeptical realism 760 / 931 (81.6%) Other 86 / 931 (9.2%) Accept or lean toward: skepticism 45 / 931 (4.8%) Home New Browse Journals Discussions Sign in Submit material Help & more Preliminary Survey results | PhilPapers Surveys http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl 1 de 5 30-04-14 23:32 Accept or lean toward: idealism 40 / 931 (4.3%) Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will? Accept or lean toward: compatibilism 550 / 931 (59.1%) Other 139 / 931 (14.9%) Accept or lean toward: libertarianism 128 / 931 (13.7%) Accept or lean toward: no free will 114 / 931 (12.2%) God: theism or atheism? Accept or lean toward: atheism 678 / 931 (72.8%) Accept or lean toward: theism 136 / 931 (14.6%) Other 117 / 931 (12.6%) Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism? Accept or lean toward: contextualism 373 / 931 (40.1%) Accept or lean toward: invariantism 290 / 931 (31.1%) Other 241 / 931 (25.9%) Accept or lean toward: relativism 27 / 931 (2.9%) Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism? Other 346 / 931 (37.2%) Accept or lean toward: empiricism 326 / 931 (35.0%) Accept or lean toward: rationalism 259 / 931 (27.8%) Laws of nature: Humean or non-Humean? Accept or lean toward: non-Humean 532 / 931 (57.1%) Accept or lean toward: Humean 230 / 931 (24.7%) Other 169 / 931 (18.2%) Logic: classical or non-classical? Accept or lean toward: classical 480 / 931 (51.6%) Other 308 / 931 (33.1%) Accept or lean toward: non-classical 143 / 931 (15.4%) Mental content: internalism or externalism? Accept or lean toward: externalism 476 / 931 (51.1%) Other 269 / 931 (28.9%) Accept or lean toward: internalism 186 / 931 (20.0%) Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism? Accept or lean toward: moral realism 525 / 931 (56.4%) Accept or lean toward: moral anti-realism 258 / 931 (27.7%) Other 148 / 931 (15.9%) Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism? Preliminary Survey results | PhilPapers Surveys http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl 2 de 5 30-04-14 23:32 Accept or lean toward: naturalism 464 / 931 (49.8%) Accept or lean toward: non-naturalism 241 / 931 (25.9%) Other 226 / 931 (24.3%) Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism? Accept or lean toward: physicalism 526 / 931 (56.5%) Accept or lean toward: non-physicalism 252 / 931 (27.1%) Other 153 / 931 (16.4%) Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism? Accept or lean toward: cognitivism 612 / 931 (65.7%) Other 161 / 931 (17.3%) Accept or lean toward: non-cognitivism 158 / 931 (17.0%) Moral motivation: internalism or externalism? Other 329 / 931 (35.3%) Accept or lean toward: internalism 325 / 931 (34.9%) Accept or lean toward: externalism 277 / 931 (29.8%) Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes? Other 441 / 931 (47.4%) Accept or lean toward: two boxes 292 / 931 (31.4%) Accept or lean toward: one box 198 / 931 (21.3%) Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics? Other 301 / 931 (32.3%) Accept or lean toward: deontology 241 / 931 (25.9%) Accept or lean toward: consequentialism 220 / 931 (23.6%) Accept or lean toward: virtue ethics 169 / 931 (18.2%) Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory? Other 393 / 931 (42.2%) Accept or lean toward: representationalism 293 / 931 (31.5%) Accept or lean toward: qualia theory 114 / 931 (12.2%) Accept or lean toward: disjunctivism 102 / 931 (11.0%) Accept or lean toward: sense-datum theory 29 / 931 (3.1%) Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view? Other 347 / 931 (37.3%) Accept or lean toward: psychological view 313 / 931 (33.6%) Accept or lean toward: biological view 157 / 931 (16.9%) Accept or lean toward: further-fact view 114 / 931 (12.2%) Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism? Preliminary Survey results | PhilPapers Surveys http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl 3 de 5 30-04-14 23:32 Other 382 / 931 (41.0%) Accept or lean toward: egalitarianism 324 / 931 (34.8%) Accept or lean toward: communitarianism 133 / 931 (14.3%) Accept or lean toward: libertarianism 92 / 931 (9.9%) Proper names: Fregean or Millian? Other 343 / 931 (36.8%) Accept or lean toward: Millian 321 / 931 (34.5%) Accept or lean toward: Fregean 267 / 931 (28.7%) Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism? Accept or lean toward: scientific realism 699 / 931 (75.1%) Other 124 / 931 (13.3%) Accept or lean toward: scientific anti-realism 108 / 931 (11.6%) Teletransporter (new matter): survival or death? Accept or lean toward: survival 337 / 931 (36.2%) Other 304 / 931 (32.7%) Accept or lean toward: death 290 / 931 (31.1%) Time: A-theory or B-theory? Other 542 / 931 (58.2%) Accept or lean toward: B-theory 245 / 931 (26.3%) Accept or lean toward: A-theory 144 / 931 (15.5%) 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 635 / 931 (68.2%) Other 225 / 931 (24.2%) Accept or lean toward: don't switch 71 / 931 (7.6%) Truth: correspondence, deflationary, or epistemic? Accept or lean toward: correspondence 473 / 931 (50.8%) Accept or lean toward: deflationary 231 / 931 (24.8%) Other 163 / 931 (17.5%) Accept or lean toward: epistemic 64 / 931 (6.9%) Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? Accept or lean toward: conceivable but not metaphysically possible 331 / 931 (35.6%) Other 234 / 931 (25.1%) Accept or lean toward: metaphysically possible 217 / 931 (23.3%) Accept or lean toward: inconceivable 149 / 931 (16.0%) Back to contents Preliminary Survey results | PhilPapers Surveys http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl 4 de 5 30-04-14 23:32 Applied ethics Epistemology History of Western Philosophy Meta-ethics Metaphysics Normative ethics Philosophy of biology Philosophy of language Philosophy of mind Philosophy of religion Science Logic and Mathematics More ... Home | New books and articles | Bibliographies | Philosophy journals | Discussions | Article Index | About PhilPapers | API | Contact us
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