PhilPapers Survey 2020

r: -0.2	Race: social
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	123	109
No	915	326

n: 1473

p < 0.0001

r: 0.17	Race: unreal
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	67	159
No	179	1038

n: 1443

p < 0.0001

r: -0.15	Human genetic engineering: permissible
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	87	57
No	582	234

n: 960

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Capital punishment: permissible
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	15	157
No	180	707

n: 1059

p < 0.0001

r: -0.14	Race categories: revise
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	29	102
No	270	433

n: 834

p < 0.0001

r: 0.13	Race categories: eliminate
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	82	49
No	294	408

n: 833

p < 0.0001

r: 0.12	Metaontology: deflationary realism
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	42	63
No	152	364

n: 621

p: 0.0024

r: -0.12	Moral judgment: cognitivism
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	151	90
No	975	314

n: 1530

p < 0.0001

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

n: 1027

p: 0.0003

r: -0.11	Units of selection: genes
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	40	58
No	254	230

n: 582

p: 0.0068

r: -0.11	Continuum hypothesis: determinate
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	25	51
No	154	213

n: 443

p: 0.0186

r: -0.11	Metaontology: heavyweight realism
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	33	72
No	237	281

n: 623

p: 0.0056

r: 0.11	Political philosophy: libertarianism
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	53	164
No	152	947

n: 1316

p < 0.0001

r: 0.11	Temporal ontology: growing block
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	32	67
No	91	465

n: 655

p: 0.0055

r: 0.11	Cosmological fine-tuning: brute fact
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	46	52
No	210	439

n: 747

p: 0.0034

r: -0.1	Aim of philosophy: wisdom
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	62	187
No	486	808

n: 1543

p < 0.0001

r: 0.1	Interlevel metaphysics: supervenience
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	43	61
No	141	382

n: 627

p: 0.0093

r: 0.1	Morality: expressivism
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	25	107
No	80	732

n: 944

p: 0.0018

r: -0.1	Justification: nonreliabilist foundationalism
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	24	105
No	214	484

n: 827

p: 0.0037

r: 0.1	Well-being: hedonism/experientialism
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	26	103
No	95	626

n: 850

p: 0.0038

r: 0.1	Quantum mechanics: collapse
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	18	45
No	76	369

n: 508

p: 0.0263

r: -0.1	Temporal ontology: eternalism
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	35	65
No	257	300

n: 657

p: 0.0116

r: 0.1	Gender: biological
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	95	137
No	378	834

n: 1444

p: 0.0002

r: 0.1	Consciousness: identity theory
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	29	104
No	102	654

n: 889

p: 0.0039

r: -0.1	Meta-ethics: moral realism
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	135	99
No	926	414

n: 1574

p < 0.0001

r: -0.1	Philosophical methods: empirical philosophy
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	146	122
No	885	470

n: 1623

p < 0.0001

r: 0.1	Normative ethics: consequentialism
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	110	133
No	415	841

n: 1499

p: 0.0002

r: -0.09	Causation: primitive
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	20	107
No	163	511

n: 801

p: 0.0084

r: -0.09	Other minds: cats
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	129	21
No	825	63

n: 1038

p: 0.0033

r: -0.09	Well-being: objective list
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	62	66
No	451	273

n: 852

p: 0.0086

r: 0.09	Philosophical methods: conceptual analysis
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	225	43
No	994	361

n: 1623

p: 0.0003

r: 0.09	Practical reason: Kantian
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	34	92
No	132	541

n: 799

p: 0.0115

r: -0.09	Properties: transcendent universals
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	18	95
No	135	428

n: 676

p: 0.0204

r: -0.08	Other minds: newborn babies
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	126	24
No	785	103

n: 1038

p: 0.0062

r: 0.08	Normative concepts: ought
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	29	86
No	92	524

n: 731

p: 0.0226

r: -0.08	Hard problem of consciousness: yes
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	80	65
No	537	269

n: 951

p: 0.0093

r: 0.08	Experience machine: yes
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	45	177
No	170	1137

n: 1529

p: 0.0012

r: -0.08	Grounds of intentionality: inferential
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	9	102
No	58	478

n: 647

p: 0.0365

r: -0.08	Propositional attitudes: phenomenal
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	5	111
No	48	540

n: 704

p: 0.0447

r: -0.08	Morality: naturalist realism
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	34	98
No	288	527

n: 947

p: 0.0204

r: -0.07	True contradictions: impossible
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	86	36
No	569	175

n: 866

p: 0.0292

r: 0.07	Meaning of life: subjective
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	101	114
No	463	691

n: 1369

p: 0.0061

r: -0.07	Statue and lump: one thing
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	34	80
No	251	404

n: 769

p: 0.0479

r: -0.07	Response to external-world skepticism: dogmatist
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	9	111
No	115	592

n: 827

p: 0.0423

r: 0.07	Abortion: permissible
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	152	15
No	753	156

n: 1076

p: 0.0207

r: -0.07	Perceptual experience: sense-datum theory
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	6	168
No	59	891

n: 1124

p: 0.0192

r: 0.07	Morality: constructivism
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	35	97
No	174	639

n: 945

p: 0.0335

r: -0.07	Meaning of life: objective
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	73	142
No	475	677

n: 1367

p: 0.015

r: 0.06	Laws of nature: Humean
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	91	138
No	389	839

n: 1457

p: 0.015

r: -0.06	Other minds: future AI systems
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	46	104
No	378	510

n: 1038

p: 0.0419

r: -0.06	A priori knowledge: yes
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	191	68
No	1073	300

n: 1632

p: 0.0147

r: -0.06	Aesthetic value: objective
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	107	125
No	628	618

n: 1478

p: 0.0226

r: -0.06	Epistemic justification: internalism
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	77	153
No	496	711

n: 1437

p: 0.0255

r: -0.06	Gender: social
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	152	80
No	881	346

n: 1459

p: 0.0306

r: -0.06	Abstract objects: Platonism
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	92	138
No	533	676

n: 1439

p: 0.0349

r: -0.05	Normative ethics: virtue ethics
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	81	160
No	557	703

n: 1501

p: 0.0379

r: -0.05	Aim of philosophy: goodness/justice
Region of affiliation: Europe	Accept	Reject
Yes	55	193
No	342	943

n: 1533

p: 0.0408

r: -0.42	Region of nationality: United States
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	12	250
No	844	520

n: 1626

p < 0.0001

r: -0.42	Region of PhD: United States
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	22	122
No	809	261

n: 1214

p < 0.0001

r: -0.1	Region of nationality: United Kingdom
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	8	254
No	155	1209

n: 1626

p < 0.0001

r: 0.09	Philosopher: Popper
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	8	200
No	10	1047

n: 1265

p: 0.0012

r: -0.09	AOS: Philosophy of Religion
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	7	266
No	133	1310

n: 1716

p: 0.0002

r: 0.08	Gender: male
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	236	37
No	1121	326

n: 1720

p: 0.0008

r: 0.08	Philosopher: Kant
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	44	164
No	143	914

n: 1265

p: 0.0046

r: -0.08	Gender: female
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	36	237
No	318	1129

n: 1720

p: 0.001

r: 0.08	Philosopher: Frege
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	25	183
No	69	988

n: 1265

p: 0.0058

r: 0.08	AOS: Logic and Philosophy of Logic
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	38	235
No	114	1329

n: 1716

p: 0.0013

r: -0.08	AOS: Normative Ethics
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	37	236
No	319	1124

n: 1716

p: 0.0014

r: 0.06	Philosopher: Wittgenstein
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	27	181
No	87	970

n: 1265

p: 0.0288

r: -0.06	Other demographics: YOB
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	108	155
No	646	697

n: 1606

p: 0.0163

r: 0.06	Philosopher: Hegel
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	11	197
No	27	1030

n: 1265

p: 0.0347

r: 0.06	AOS: Philosophy of Language
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	57	216
No	217	1226

n: 1716

p: 0.0157

r: 0.05	AOS: Philosophy of Action
Region of affiliation: Europe	Yes	No
Yes	26	247
No	85	1358

n: 1716

p: 0.0252

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