Survey Results

Respondent demographics

1785 respondents
Area of specialization Count
Epistemology 407
Metaphysics 373
Normative Ethics 358
Philosophy of Mind 355
Social and Political Philosophy 287
Philosophy of Language 281
Meta-Ethics 228
Applied Ethics 226
General Philosophy of Science 200
17th/18th Century Philosophy 166
Philosophy of Cognitive Science 162
Logic and Philosophy of Logic 152
Philosophy of Religion 141
20th Century Philosophy 135
Philosophy of Action 112
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy 99
Continental Philosophy 95
Aesthetics 95
19th Century Philosophy 90
Feminist Philosophy 82
Metaphilosophy 78
Philosophy of Biology 69
Philosophy of Physical Science 65
Philosophy of Social Science 59
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality 55
Philosophy of Law 51
Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy 51
Philosophy of Mathematics 50
Decision Theory 48
Asian Philosophy 37
Philosophy of Computing and Information 25
Philosophy of the Americas 14
African/Africana Philosophy 9
No answer 52
Nationality Count
United States of America 859
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 163
Canada 127
Germany 89
Australia 59
Italy 38
Sweden 29
New Zealand 24
Netherlands 22
Spain 20
Israel 18
France 13
Belgium 13
Denmark 12
Ireland 11
Switzerland 11
Poland 11
Norway 10
Brazil 9
Austria 9
Finland 7
Colombia 6
Romania 5
Portugal 5
Greece 5
Other 64
No answer 146
Country of primary affiliation Count
United States of America 1004
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 203
Canada 123
Australia 73
Germany 56
Sweden 34
Netherlands 34
Italy 24
Spain 23
New Zealand 20
Israel 18
Norway 15
Singapore 12
Hong Kong 12
Switzerland 12
Brazil 12
Belgium 11
France 10
Denmark 10
Austria 10
Poland 9
Ireland 8
South Africa 6
Mexico 5
Other 44
No answer 13
Country of PhD institution Count
United States of America 835
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 162
Australia 51
Canada 49
Germany 40
Netherlands 17
Sweden 14
Spain 10
Belgium 8
Italy 6
Switzerland 5
Other 30
No answer 540
Gender Count
Male 1365
Female 357
Prefer not to say gender 25
Other gender 9
No answer 29
Year of birth Count
1970s 500
1980s 424
1960s 395
1950s 209
1940s 62
1990s 23
1930s 6
No answer 166
Tradition Count
Analytic 1430
Other tradition 169
Continental 113
Both 17
Pragmatism 13
History 5
Aristotelian 3
No answer 73
Non-living philosophers identified with Count
Aristotle 238
Hume 221
Kant 188
Lewis 117
Wittgenstein 117
Quine 107
Frege 95
Carnap 80
Russell 80
Plato 74
Rawls 71
Mill 67
Aquinas 56
Marx 52
Socrates 49
Descartes 48
James 47
Parfit 46
Dewey 45
Putnam 44
Davidson 44
Leibniz 41
Anscombe 39
Nietzsche 39
Moore 39
Hegel 38
Heidegger 34
Locke 33
Husserl 33
Reid 32
Spinoza 32
Merleau-Ponty 28
Foucault 27
Peirce 26
Beauvoir 26
Augustine 23
Kierkegaard 22
Arendt 18
Popper 18
Hobbes 16
Sellars 16
Nāgārjuna 15
Du Bois 13
Sartre 13
Rorty 13
Berkeley 12
Austin 9
Wollstonecraft 9
Williams 8
Derrida 8
Grice 8
Rousseau 7
Confucius 7
Whitehead 7
Sidgwick 7
Buddha 6
Ramsey 6
Schopenhauer 6
Zhuangzi 6
Deleuze 5
Dummett 5
Fodor 5
Goodman 5
Laozi 5
Collingwood 4
Levinas 4
Prior 4
Ross 4
Strawson 4
Dretske 4
Avicenna 3
Tarski 3
Epicurus 3
Hare 3
Hart 3
Kuhn 3
Ryle 3
Sextus Empiricus 3
Chisholm 3
Other 194
No answer 507