2020 PhilPapers Survey
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The 2020 PhilPapers Survey

  • Introduction
  • Questions
  • Target population
  • Editors' thoughts
  • How to cite

Results

  • Main survey results
  • Longitudinal analysis
  • Respondent demographics
  • Correlations
  • Detailed results by question

      Main Questions

      • A priori knowledge
      • Abstract objects
      • Aesthetic value
      • Aim of philosophy
      • Analytic-synthetic distinction
      • Eating animals and animal products
      • Epistemic justification
      • Experience machine
      • External world
      • Footbridge
      • Free will
      • Gender
      • God
      • Knowledge
      • Knowledge claims
      • Laws of nature
      • Logic
      • Meaning of life
      • Mental content
      • Meta-ethics
      • Metaphilosophy
      • Mind
      • Moral judgment
      • Moral motivation
      • Newcomb's problem
      • Normative ethics
      • Perceptual experience
      • Personal identity
      • Philosophical methods
      • Philosophical progress
      • Political philosophy
      • Proper names
      • Race
      • Science
      • Teletransporter
      • Time
      • Trolley problem
      • Truth
      • Vagueness
      • Zombies

      Additional Questions

      • Abortion
      • Aesthetic experience
      • Analysis of knowledge
      • Arguments for theism
      • Belief or credence
      • Capital punishment
      • Causation
      • Chinese room
      • Concepts
      • Consciousness
      • Continuum hypothesis
      • Cosmological fine-tuning
      • Environmental ethics
      • Extended mind
      • Foundations of mathematics
      • Gender categories
      • Grounds of intentionality
      • Hard problem of consciousness
      • Human genetic engineering
      • Hume
      • Immortality
      • Interlevel metaphysics
      • Justification
      • Kant
      • Law
      • Material composition
      • Metaontology
      • Method in history of philosophy
      • Method in political philosophy
      • Mind uploading
      • Moral principles
      • Morality
      • Normative concepts
      • Other minds
      • Ought implies can
      • Philosophical knowledge
      • Plato
      • Politics
      • Possible worlds
      • Practical reason
      • Principle of sufficient reason
      • Properties
      • Propositional attitudes
      • Propositions
      • Quantum mechanics
      • Race categories
      • Rational disagreement
      • Response to external-world skepticism
      • Semantic content
      • Sleeping beauty
      • Spacetime
      • Statue and lump
      • Temporal ontology
      • Theory of reference
      • Time travel
      • True contradictions
      • Units of selection
      • Values in science
      • Well-being
      • Wittgenstein
  • Additional figures

See also

  • 2009 and 2020 articles
  • The 2009 Survey
  • Search profiles with public views
  • Terms of use and consent
  • Acknowledgments

Survey Results

Correlations


Philosopher

Philosophical questions AOS Philosopher Region of affiliation Region of nationality Region of PhD Gender Tradition Other demographics

Derrida

Anscombe Aquinas Arendt Aristotle Augustine Austin Beauvoir Berkeley Buddha Carnap Confucius Davidson Deleuze Derrida Descartes Dewey Du Bois Fodor Foucault Frege Grice Hegel Heidegger Hobbes Hume Husserl James Kant Kierkegaard Leibniz Lewis Locke Marx Merleau-Ponty Mill Moore Nāgārjuna Nietzsche none Parfit Peirce Plato Popper Putnam Quine ramsey Rawls Reid Rorty Rousseau Russell Sartre Sellars Sidgwick Socrates Spinoza Whitehead Williams Wittgenstein Wollstonecraft

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


Jump to: philosophical questions | demographic questions

Strongest correlations with philosophical questions

r: 0.07
Knowledge claims: contextualism
Philosopher: Derrida Accept Reject
Yes 6 1
No 584 390
n: 981
p: 0.0286

Strongest correlations with demographic questions

r: 0.22
AOS: Continental Philosophy
Philosopher: Derrida Yes No
Yes 6 2
No 78 1171
n: 1257
p < 0.0001
r: 0.16
Tradition: Continental
Philosopher: Derrida Yes No
Yes 5 3
No 96 1141
n: 1245
p < 0.0001