For those of you who don't know, philpapers is a resource I refer to a lot because it is so damned useful and interesting. Wiki:
PhilPapers is an
international, interactive academic database of journal articles for
professionals and students in philosophy. It is maintained as a combined
project of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University
(ANU), Canberra and the Institute
of Philosophy in the School of Advanced Study
at the University
of London.
As of 2012, the site was
maintained by David Bourget (ANU and University
of London) and David
Chalmers (ANU).
PhilPapers receives
financial support from other organizations, including a substantial grant in
early 2009 from the Joint Information Systems Committee in the United
Kingdom.[1]
What it is most renowned for is the biggest ever survey of professional and graduate philosophers. Here are the 2009 results:A priori knowledge: yes or no?
Accept or lean toward: yes | 662 / 931 (71.1%) |
Accept or lean toward: no | 171 / 931 (18.3%) |
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 (22.9%) |
Aesthetic value: objective or subjective?
Accept or lean toward: objective | 382 / 931 (41%) |
Accept or lean toward: subjective | 321 / 931 (34.4%) |
Other | 228 / 931 (24.4%) |
Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes or no?
Accept or lean toward: yes | 604 / 931 (64.8%) |
Accept or lean toward: no | 252 / 931 (27%) |
Other | 75 / 931 (8%) |
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%) |
Accept or lean toward: idealism | 40 / 931 (4.2%) |
Free will: compatibilism, libertarianism, or no free will?
Accept or lean toward: compatibilism | 550 / 931 (59%) |
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 (12.5%) |
Knowledge claims: contextualism, relativism, or invariantism?
Accept or lean toward: contextualism | 373 / 931 (40%) |
Accept or lean toward: invariantism | 290 / 931 (31.1%) |
Other | 241 / 931 (25.8%) |
Accept or lean toward: relativism | 27 / 931 (2.9%) |
Knowledge: empiricism or rationalism?
Other | 346 / 931 (37.1%) |
Accept or lean toward: empiricism | 326 / 931 (35%) |
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 (18.1%) |
Logic: classical or non-classical?
Accept or lean toward: classical | 480 / 931 (51.5%) |
Other | 308 / 931 (33%) |
Accept or lean toward: non-classical | 143 / 931 (15.3%) |
Mental content: internalism or externalism?
Accept or lean toward: externalism | 476 / 931 (51.1%) |
Other | 269 / 931 (28.8%) |
Accept or lean toward: internalism | 186 / 931 (19.9%) |
Meta-ethics: moral realism or moral anti-realism?
Accept or lean toward: moral realism | 525 / 931 (56.3%) |
Accept or lean toward: moral anti-realism | 258 / 931 (27.7%) |
Other | 148 / 931 (15.8%) |
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?
Accept or lean toward: naturalism | 464 / 931 (49.8%) |
Accept or lean toward: non-naturalism | 241 / 931 (25.8%) |
Other | 226 / 931 (24.2%) |
Mind: physicalism or non-physicalism?
Accept or lean toward: physicalism | 526 / 931 (56.4%) |
Accept or lean toward: non-physicalism | 252 / 931 (27%) |
Other | 153 / 931 (16.4%) |
Moral judgment: cognitivism or non-cognitivism?
Accept or lean toward: cognitivism | 612 / 931 (65.7%) |
Other | 161 / 931 (17.2%) |
Accept or lean toward: non-cognitivism | 158 / 931 (16.9%) |
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 (29.7%) |
Newcomb's problem: one box or two boxes?
Other | 441 / 931 (47.3%) |
Accept or lean toward: two boxes | 292 / 931 (31.3%) |
Accept or lean toward: one box | 198 / 931 (21.2%) |
Normative ethics: deontology, consequentialism, or virtue ethics?
Other | 301 / 931 (32.3%) |
Accept or lean toward: deontology | 241 / 931 (25.8%) |
Accept or lean toward: consequentialism | 220 / 931 (23.6%) |
Accept or lean toward: virtue ethics | 169 / 931 (18.1%) |
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism, qualia theory, representationalism, or sense-datum theory?
Other | 393 / 931 (42.2%) |
Accept or lean toward: representationalism | 293 / 931 (31.4%) |
Accept or lean toward: qualia theory | 114 / 931 (12.2%) |
Accept or lean toward: disjunctivism | 102 / 931 (10.9%) |
Accept or lean toward: sense-datum theory | 29 / 931 (3.1%) |
Personal identity: biological view, psychological view, or further-fact view?
Other | 347 / 931 (37.2%) |
Accept or lean toward: psychological view | 313 / 931 (33.6%) |
Accept or lean toward: biological view | 157 / 931 (16.8%) |
Accept or lean toward: further-fact view | 114 / 931 (12.2%) |
Politics: communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism?
Other | 382 / 931 (41%) |
Accept or lean toward: egalitarianism | 324 / 931 (34.8%) |
Accept or lean toward: communitarianism | 133 / 931 (14.2%) |
Accept or lean toward: libertarianism | 92 / 931 (9.8%) |
Proper names: Fregean or Millian?
Other | 343 / 931 (36.8%) |
Accept or lean toward: Millian | 321 / 931 (34.4%) |
Accept or lean toward: Fregean | 267 / 931 (28.6%) |
Science: scientific realism or scientific anti-realism?
Accept or lean toward: scientific realism | 699 / 931 (75%) |
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 (36.1%) |
Other | 304 / 931 (32.6%) |
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 (15.4%) |
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 | 635 / 931 (68.2%) |
Other | 225 / 931 (24.1%) |
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 (6.8%) |
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?
Accept or lean toward: conceivable but not metaphysically possible | 331 / 931 (35.5%) |
Other | 234 / 931 (25.1%) |
Accept or lean toward: metaphysically possible | 217 / 931 (23.3%) |
Accept or lean toward: inconceivable | 149 / 931 (16%) |