Survey Results

Immortality (would you choose it?): no or yes?

Population

AOS

Region

for

Exclude answers beyond respondent's first 50

Include skip/insufficiently familiar answers

1113 respondents

What the percentages mean: "Accept or lean toward P: 50% (40%)" means that 50% of respondents endorsed this answer inclusively (including multiple-answer endorsements) and 40% endorsed this answer exclusively (excluding multiple-answer endorsements).

These results should not be used for comparison to 2009 results due to different populations and parameters. For meaningful longitudinal comparisons, see the longitudinal analysis section.

Collapse accept and lean towards

Accept or lean towards:
yes

44.92% (44.92%)

Reject or lean against:
yes

0.09% (0.00%)

Accept or lean towards:
no

41.33% (41.33%)

Reject or lean against:
no

0.09% (0.00%)

Accept a combination of views

0.18%

Accept an alternative view

1.35%

The question is too unclear to answer

4.22%

There is no fact of the matter

0.63%

Agnostic/undecided

6.92%

Other

0.45%

N = 1113, excluding skipped & insufficiently familiar (41 respondents)

Alternative Views

20 target respondents indicated that they accept or lean toward an alternative view. The words used in their responses cluster as follows. These results are not filtered by AOS, region, etc.

DEPE (3): depends (3)

Longitudinal comparison to 2009 survey

This question was not in the 2009 survey

Strongest correlations with main questions (target population)

r: 0.36	Cosmological fine-tuning: design
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	108	225
Reject	21	271

n: 625

p < 0.0001

r: 0.35	God: theism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	159	325
Reject	49	446

n: 979

p < 0.0001

r: -0.35	Abortion: permissible
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	305	114
Reject	409	31

n: 859

p < 0.0001

r: 0.29	Meaning of life: objective
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	220	192
Reject	126	295

n: 833

p < 0.0001

r: 0.27	Consciousness: dualism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	134	239
Reject	60	302

n: 735

p < 0.0001

r: -0.26	Mind: physicalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	213	240
Reject	311	161

n: 925

p < 0.0001

r: 0.24	Politics: capitalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	180	201
Reject	96	289

n: 766

p < 0.0001

r: 0.24	Metaontology: heavyweight realism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	145	119
Reject	88	175

n: 527

p < 0.0001

r: -0.23	Metaphilosophy: naturalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	186	209
Reject	273	148

n: 816

p < 0.0001

r: 0.22	Hard problem of consciousness: yes
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	285	99
Reject	218	176

n: 778

p < 0.0001

r: -0.22	Cosmological fine-tuning: brute fact
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	88	245
Reject	119	172

n: 624

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	True contradictions: impossible
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	322	57
Reject	237	103

n: 719

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	Continuum hypothesis: determinate
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	102	88
Reject	58	118

n: 366

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	Abstract objects: Platonism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	223	196
Reject	157	289

n: 865

p < 0.0001

r: 0.2	Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	130	202
Reject	74	268

n: 674

p < 0.0001

r: -0.2	Meaning of life: subjective
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	132	281
Reject	189	233

n: 835

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Moral judgment: cognitivism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	382	79
Reject	311	156

n: 928

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	A priori knowledge: yes
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	408	72
Reject	363	140

n: 983

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Gender categories: preserve
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	105	253
Reject	60	313

n: 731

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Truth: correspondence
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	295	138
Reject	227	221

n: 881

p < 0.0001

r: -0.19	Metaontology: anti-realism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	24	239
Reject	47	215

n: 525

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Meta-ethics: moral realism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	358	110
Reject	298	180

n: 946

p < 0.0001

r: 0.19	Free will: libertarianism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	129	343
Reject	74	429

n: 975

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Propositional attitudes: representational
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	175	115
Reject	136	183

n: 609

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	Gender: social
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	252	156
Reject	341	114

n: 863

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Morality: non-naturalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	147	248
Reject	84	296

n: 775

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Arguments for theism: cosmological
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	128	244
Reject	56	276

n: 704

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Gender: biological
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	160	248
Reject	127	323

n: 858

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Aesthetic value: objective
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	260	178
Reject	201	257

n: 896

p < 0.0001

r: 0.18	Interlevel metaphysics: grounding
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	111	154
Reject	79	196

n: 540

p < 0.0001

r: -0.18	True contradictions: actual
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	34	345
Reject	52	288

n: 719

p < 0.0001

r: -0.17	Knowledge: empiricism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	188	189
Reject	258	142

n: 777

p < 0.0001

r: -0.17	Cosmological fine-tuning: no fine-tuning
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	63	269
Reject	84	206

n: 622

p < 0.0001

r: 0.17	Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	290	175
Reject	236	268

n: 969

p < 0.0001

r: -0.17	Justification: coherentism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	64	268
Reject	111	232

n: 675

p < 0.0001

r: -0.17	Gender categories: revise
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	173	186
Reject	223	151

n: 733

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	Truth: deflationary
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	101	332
Reject	147	300

n: 880

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	True contradictions: possible but non-actual
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	12	367
Reject	20	320

n: 719

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	Concepts: nativism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	127	163
Reject	82	236

n: 608

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	Meaning of life: nonexistent
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	72	333
Reject	108	312

n: 825

p < 0.0001

r: -0.16	Morality: constructivism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	64	332
Reject	106	277

n: 779

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	Chinese room: understands
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	68	333
Reject	92	270

n: 763

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Capital punishment: permissible
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	102	318
Reject	64	380

n: 864

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Personal identity: further-fact view
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	102	298
Reject	56	348

n: 804

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Knowledge claims: invariantism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	145	238
Reject	114	309

n: 806

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Semantic content: minimalism (no more than a few)
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	39	243
Reject	21	290

n: 593

p: 0.0004

r: -0.14	Foundations of mathematics: constructivism/intuitionism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	20	190
Reject	50	176

n: 436

p: 0.0025

r: -0.14	Metaontology: deflationary realism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	67	197
Reject	95	166

n: 525

p: 0.0011

r: 0.14	Method in history of philosophy: analytic/rational reconstruction
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	244	88
Reject	214	143

n: 689

p: 0.0002

r: -0.14	Laws of nature: Humean
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	114	310
Reject	162	280

n: 866

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Extended mind: yes
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	176	182
Reject	225	153

n: 736

p: 0.0002

r: -0.13	Semantic content: radical contextualism (most or all)
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	53	229
Reject	104	207

n: 593

p: 0.0011

r: 0.13	Science: scientific realism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	392	65
Reject	348	111

n: 916

p < 0.0001

r: -0.13	Truth: epistemic
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	30	402
Reject	55	393

n: 880

p < 0.0001

r: -0.13	Knowledge claims: contextualism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	189	195
Reject	254	171

n: 809

p: 0.0004

r: -0.13	Morality: expressivism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	29	368
Reject	54	329

n: 780

p: 0.0005

r: -0.12	External world: skepticism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	26	458
Reject	37	458

n: 979

p < 0.0001

r: -0.12	Consciousness: identity theory
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	46	326
Reject	67	296

n: 735

p: 0.0012

r: -0.12	Other minds: current AI systems
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	11	405
Reject	16	409

n: 841

p: 0.0007

r: 0.11	Sleeping beauty: one-third
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	62	96
Reject	38	109

n: 305

p: 0.0449

r: -0.11	Consciousness: eliminativism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	10	361
Reject	27	336

n: 734

p: 0.0018

r: -0.11	Free will: compatibilism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	276	198
Reject	338	165

n: 977

p: 0.0003

r: -0.11	Material composition: universalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	72	157
Reject	60	121

n: 410

p: 0.0231

r: 0.11	Hume: skeptic
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	133	180
Reject	122	232

n: 667

p: 0.0037

r: -0.11	Spacetime: relationism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	104	135
Reject	127	106

n: 472

p: 0.0155

r: -0.11	Response to external-world skepticism: pragmatic
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	70	286
Reject	95	247

n: 698

p: 0.0033

r: -0.11	Grounds of intentionality: interpretational
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	30	238
Reject	55	210

n: 533

p: 0.0107

r: 0.11	Material composition: restrictivism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	106	123
Reject	67	114

n: 410

p: 0.0256

r: 0.11	Arguments for theism: design
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	105	267
Reject	48	284

n: 704

p: 0.0034

r: 0.11	Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	70	281
Reject	35	306

n: 692

p: 0.0039

r: -0.11	Other minds: plants
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	28	388
Reject	36	389

n: 841

p: 0.0016

r: 0.11	Method in political philosophy: ideal theory
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	108	160
Reject	97	210

n: 575

p: 0.0101

r: 0.11	Properties: transcendent universals
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	80	220
Reject	42	227

n: 569

p: 0.011

r: -0.1	Properties: nonexistent
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	23	276
Reject	33	235

n: 567

p: 0.0127

r: -0.1	Philosophical knowledge: none
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	7	411
Reject	19	395

n: 832

p: 0.003

r: 0.1	Analytic-synthetic distinction: yes
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	334	134
Reject	321	169

n: 958

p: 0.0016

r: 0.1	Zombies: metaphysically possible
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	149	281
Reject	109	322

n: 861

p: 0.0029

r: -0.1	Causation: nonexistent
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	10	312
Reject	22	312

n: 656

p: 0.0093

r: -0.1	Propositional attitudes: dispositional
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	79	209
Reject	132	187

n: 607

p: 0.0144

r: 0.1	Principle of sufficient reason: true
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	156	222
Reject	114	246

n: 738

p: 0.0082

r: -0.1	Well-being: hedonism/experientialism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	45	302
Reject	58	300

n: 705

p: 0.0102

r: -0.1	Perceptual experience: disjunctivism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	44	284
Reject	86	281

n: 695

p: 0.0111

r: -0.1	Consciousness: functionalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	128	243
Reject	150	215

n: 736

p: 0.009

r: 0.09	Arguments for theism: moral
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	60	309
Reject	20	311

n: 700

p: 0.012

r: 0.09	Foundations of mathematics: set-theoretic
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	44	168
Reject	35	190

n: 437

p: 0.0498

r: -0.09	Political philosophy: egalitarianism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	182	188
Reject	220	193

n: 783

p: 0.0087

r: 0.09	Environmental ethics: anthropocentric
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	157	175
Reject	142	213

n: 687

p: 0.0145

r: 0.09	External world: non-skeptical realism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	426	59
Reject	421	72

n: 978

p: 0.0036

r: 0.09	Moral principles: moral generalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	225	134
Reject	209	178

n: 746

p: 0.0118

r: 0.09	Race categories: preserve
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	29	291
Reject	25	323

n: 668

p: 0.0188

r: -0.09	Moral motivation: internalism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	153	221
Reject	196	217

n: 787

p: 0.012

r: -0.09	Interlevel metaphysics: supervenience
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	72	191
Reject	82	193

n: 538

p: 0.0383

r: 0.09	Analysis of knowledge: other analysis
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	150	247
Reject	112	276

n: 785

p: 0.0124

r: -0.09	Personal identity: psychological view
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	195	207
Reject	221	188

n: 811

p: 0.0114

r: 0.09	Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	303	162
Reject	284	220

n: 969

p: 0.0058

r: -0.09	Philosophical progress: none
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	9	471
Reject	22	478

n: 980

p: 0.0056

r: 0.09	Propositions: simple entities
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	30	275
Reject	17	264

n: 586

p: 0.0378

r: -0.09	Eating animals and animal products: vegetarianism (no and yes)
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	105	368
Reject	149	349

n: 971

p: 0.008

r: -0.08	Morality: naturalist realism
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	134	263
Reject	135	250

n: 782

p: 0.0206

r: 0.08	Philosophical progress: a lot
Immortality: yes	Accept	Reject
Accept	248	232
Reject	218	283

n: 981

p: 0.0095

Strongest correlations with demographic questions (target population)

r: 0.26	AOS: Philosophy of Religion
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	85	407
Reject	18	513

n: 1023

p < 0.0001

r: 0.21	Philosopher: Aquinas
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	37	333
Reject	7	403

n: 780

p < 0.0001

r: 0.16	Region of nationality: United States
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	281	181
Reject	239	269

n: 970

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	Gender: female
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	56	425
Reject	118	409

n: 1008

p < 0.0001

r: 0.15	Gender: male
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	423	58
Reject	408	119

n: 1008

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Region of nationality: Europe
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	70	392
Reject	124	384

n: 970

p < 0.0001

r: 0.14	Other demographics: YOB
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	250	206
Reject	224	280

n: 960

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Philosopher: Augustine
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	15	355
Reject	3	407

n: 780

p: 0.0003

r: 0.13	Region of affiliation: United States
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	320	175
Reject	281	251

n: 1027

p < 0.0001

r: 0.12	AOS: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	26	466
Reject	8	523

n: 1023

p < 0.0001

r: 0.12	Region of PhD: United States
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	283	103
Reject	241	133

n: 760

p: 0.0009

r: 0.12	Philosopher: Kierkegaard
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	9	361
Reject	0	410

n: 780

p: 0.0009

r: -0.11	Region of affiliation: Europe
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	60	435
Reject	97	435

n: 1027

p: 0.0003

r: -0.11	Region of PhD: Europe
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	27	359
Reject	48	326

n: 760

p: 0.0026

r: 0.11	Philosopher: Descartes
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	24	346
Reject	12	398

n: 780

p: 0.0025

r: 0.1	Philosopher: Reid
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	15	355
Reject	5	405

n: 780

p: 0.0043

r: -0.1	Tradition: Continental
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	13	469
Reject	35	486

n: 1003

p: 0.0015

r: 0.1	AOS: Metaphysics
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	143	349
Reject	106	425

n: 1023

p: 0.0015

r: -0.1	AOS: 19th Century Philosophy
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	10	482
Reject	31	500

n: 1023

p: 0.0021

r: 0.09	Philosopher: Plato
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	27	343
Reject	18	392

n: 780

p: 0.0101

r: 0.09	Tradition: Analytic
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	435	47
Reject	436	85

n: 1003

p: 0.004

r: 0.09	Region of affiliation: Asia
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	24	471
Reject	11	521

n: 1027

p: 0.0042

r: -0.08	Philosopher: Wittgenstein
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	25	345
Reject	46	364

n: 780

p: 0.0203

r: -0.08	Philosopher: Kant
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	40	330
Reject	64	346

n: 780

p: 0.0305

r: 0.08	Philosopher: Moore
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	19	351
Reject	11	399

n: 780

p: 0.0311

r: 0.07	Philosopher: Leibniz
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	19	351
Reject	10	400

n: 780

p: 0.0377

r: -0.07	AOS: 20th Century Philosophy
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	21	471
Reject	48	483

n: 1023

p: 0.0182

r: 0.07	Philosopher: Russell
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	36	334
Reject	20	390

n: 780

p: 0.0458

r: -0.07	AOS: Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	36	456
Reject	60	471

n: 1023

p: 0.0232

r: 0.07	Region of nationality: Asia
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	15	447
Reject	6	502

n: 970

p: 0.0295

r: -0.07	AOS: Continental Philosophy
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	11	481
Reject	31	500

n: 1023

p: 0.0261

r: 0.07	AOS: Normative Ethics
Immortality: yes	Yes	No
Accept	126	366
Reject	110	421

n: 1023

p: 0.0365