Survey Results

Correlations

19th Century Philosophy

Note: For philosophical questions with only two main suggested answers, only one answer (randomly selected) can be looked up for correlations.

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Strongest correlations with philosophical questions

r: 0.2
External world: idealism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 24 53
No 90 1428
n: 1595
p < 0.0001
r: -0.17
True contradictions: impossible
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 13 17
No 635 195
n: 860
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Philosophical progress: none
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 14 67
No 53 1466
n: 1600
p < 0.0001
r: 0.15
Justification: coherentism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 20 14
No 203 588
n: 825
p < 0.0001
r: -0.15
Truth: correspondence
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 16 46
No 811 560
n: 1433
p < 0.0001
r: -0.14
External world: non-skeptical realism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 51 26
No 1315 200
n: 1592
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
True contradictions: actual
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 9 21
No 105 725
n: 860
p: 0.0002
r: 0.13
Truth: epistemic
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 20 42
No 141 1226
n: 1429
p < 0.0001
r: -0.12
Units of selection: genes
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 8 19
No 279 273
n: 579
p: 0.003
r: -0.12
Metaontology: heavyweight realism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 6 23
No 260 329
n: 618
p: 0.0029
r: 0.12
Foundations of mathematics: constructivism/intuitionism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 12 13
No 80 412
n: 517
p: 0.0075
r: 0.11
Spacetime: relationism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 19 5
No 261 289
n: 574
p: 0.0065
r: 0.11
True contradictions: possible but non-actual
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 5 25
No 39 791
n: 860
p: 0.0009
r: 0.11
Consciousness: panpsychism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 9 32
No 67 781
n: 889
p: 0.001
r: -0.11
Philosophical methods: intuition-based philosophy
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 21 59
No 819 700
n: 1599
p < 0.0001
r: 0.11
Arguments for theism: pragmatic
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 15 28
No 128 653
n: 824
p: 0.0023
r: 0.1
Metaontology: anti-realism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 9 19
No 75 512
n: 615
p: 0.0105
r: 0.1
Response to external-world skepticism: pragmatic
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 16 19
No 194 607
n: 836
p: 0.0043
r: 0.1
Properties: immanent universals
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 11 16
No 144 499
n: 670
p: 0.0106
r: 0.1
Interlevel metaphysics: realization
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 10 12
No 142 458
n: 622
p: 0.0159
r: -0.1
Knowledge claims: invariantism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 8 60
No 359 905
n: 1332
p: 0.0005
r: -0.1
Immortality: yes
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 10 31
No 482 500
n: 1023
p: 0.0021
r: -0.1
Science: scientific realism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 52 25
No 1137 295
n: 1509
p: 0.0002
r: -0.09
Philosophical methods: formal philosophy
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 30 50
No 910 609
n: 1599
p: 0.0002
r: -0.09
Other minds: future AI systems
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 15 30
No 409 577
n: 1031
p: 0.0026
r: 0.09
Truth: deflationary
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 26 36
No 363 1005
n: 1430
p: 0.0004
r: -0.09
Metaphilosophy: naturalism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 26 39
No 734 516
n: 1315
p: 0.0008
r: 0.09
Philosophical knowledge: none
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 5 40
No 34 934
n: 1013
p: 0.0046
r: 0.09
Political philosophy: communitarianism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 33 33
No 375 856
n: 1297
p: 0.0015
r: -0.09
Human genetic engineering: permissible
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 23 19
No 648 266
n: 956
p: 0.0066
r: -0.09
Time travel: metaphysically possible
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 8 26
No 383 454
n: 871
p: 0.0115
r: -0.08
Politics: capitalism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 8 33
No 310 562
n: 913
p: 0.0102
r: 0.08
Arguments for theism: moral
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 9 34
No 86 701
n: 830
p: 0.0145
r: 0.08
Semantic content: radical contextualism (most or all)
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 16 17
No 178 514
n: 725
p: 0.0246
r: -0.08
Method in history of philosophy: analytic/rational reconstruction
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 23 22
No 537 273
n: 855
p: 0.0153
r: 0.08
Temporal ontology: growing block
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 8 15
No 115 514
n: 652
p: 0.0372
r: 0.08
Temporal ontology: presentism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 8 15
No 124 507
n: 654
p: 0.0462
r: -0.08
Philosophical progress: a lot
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 19 62
No 700 820
n: 1601
p: 0.0018
r: 0.08
Time: A-theory
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 16 21
No 280 640
n: 957
p: 0.0188
r: 0.07
Practical reason: Kantian
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 12 23
No 153 607
n: 795
p: 0.036
r: 0.07
Gender categories: revise
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 31 13
No 459 387
n: 890
p: 0.0283
r: -0.07
Mind: physicalism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 32 42
No 846 604
n: 1524
p: 0.0043
r: 0.07
Cosmological fine-tuning: brute fact
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 17 17
No 235 472
n: 741
p: 0.0471
r: 0.07
Knowledge claims: contextualism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 52 16
No 734 533
n: 1335
p: 0.0103
r: 0.07
Perceptual experience: disjunctivism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 13 34
No 184 883
n: 1114
p: 0.0205
r: 0.07
Principle of sufficient reason: true
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 20 17
No 304 531
n: 872
p: 0.0426
r: 0.07
Gender: social
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 64 16
No 955 401
n: 1436
p: 0.0109
r: 0.07
Aim of philosophy: wisdom
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 39 42
No 492 941
n: 1514
p: 0.0097
r: 0.07
Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 33 48
No 358 1067
n: 1506
p: 0.0112
r: -0.06
Race: biological
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 11 70
No 290 1080
n: 1451
p: 0.0156
r: -0.06
Logic: classical
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 26 31
No 711 397
n: 1165
p: 0.0375
r: 0.06
Race: social
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 66 16
No 957 413
n: 1452
p: 0.0244
r: -0.06
Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 45 35
No 974 545
n: 1599
p: 0.0217
r: -0.06
Trolley problem: switch
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 45 23
No 1028 325
n: 1421
p: 0.0322
r: -0.06
Normative ethics: consequentialism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 19 52
No 502 899
n: 1472
p: 0.0307
r: 0.05
Gender: psychological
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 29 48
No 317 1029
n: 1423
p: 0.0454
r: -0.05
Meta-ethics: moral realism
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Accept Reject
Yes 41 29
No 995 482
n: 1547
p: 0.039

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.32
Philosopher: Hegel
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 19 58
No 19 1161
n: 1257
p < 0.0001
r: -0.29
Tradition: Analytic
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 32 54
No 1373 222
n: 1681
p < 0.0001
r: 0.26
Philosopher: Nietzsche
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 16 61
No 23 1157
n: 1257
p < 0.0001
r: 0.23
Tradition: Continental
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 27 59
No 85 1510
n: 1681
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Philosopher: Kierkegaard
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 8 69
No 13 1167
n: 1257
p < 0.0001
r: 0.17
Tradition: Other tradition
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 27 59
No 137 1458
n: 1681
p < 0.0001
r: 0.13
Philosopher: Peirce
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 7 70
No 19 1161
n: 1257
p < 0.0001
r: 0.09
Philosopher: James
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 8 69
No 39 1141
n: 1257
p: 0.0015
r: 0.08
Philosopher: Marx
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 8 69
No 44 1136
n: 1257
p: 0.0044
r: 0.08
Philosopher: Foucault
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 5 72
No 21 1159
n: 1257
p: 0.0048
r: 0.08
Philosopher: Beauvoir
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 5 72
No 21 1159
n: 1257
p: 0.0048
r: 0.08
Region of PhD: Canada
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 6 51
No 41 1094
n: 1192
p: 0.0088
r: -0.07
Philosopher: Hume
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 5 72
No 213 967
n: 1257
p: 0.0094
r: 0.07
Philosopher: Kant
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 19 58
No 166 1014
n: 1257
p: 0.0109
r: 0.07
Region of affiliation: Canada
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 13 77
No 104 1522
n: 1716
p: 0.0032
r: 0.07
Region of nationality: Canada
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 13 72
No 110 1404
n: 1599
p: 0.0069
r: 0.06
Philosopher: Heidegger
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 5 72
No 27 1153
n: 1257
p: 0.0232
r: 0.06
Gender: female
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 27 62
No 316 1279
n: 1684
p: 0.0164
r: -0.05
Gender: male
AOS: 19th Century Philosophy Yes No
Yes 62 27
No 1270 325
n: 1684
p: 0.0245