The 2009 PhilPapers Survey Results, Analysis and Discussion
The first PhilPapers Survey was a survey of
professional philosophers and others on their philosophical views, carried
out in November 2009.
The Survey was taken by 3226 respondents, including 1803 philosophy
faculty members and/or PhDs and 829 philosophy graduate students.
The PhilPapers Metasurvey was a concurrent survey of professional philosophers and others concerning their predictions of the results of the Survey. The Metasurvey was taken by 727 respondents including 438 professional philosophers and PhDs and 210 philosophy graduate students.
Note: Our most recent survey of philosophers is the 2020 PhilPapers Survey.
Paper
The results of the survey and our analysis are discussed in What Do Philosophers Believe? (forthcoming in Philosophical Studies).
Results
- PhilPapers Survey: Results
- PhilPapers Metasurvey: Results
- Demographic statistics
- List of public respondents (with browsable answers)
- Correlations between the answers of the target faculty group:
- Most correlated variables (start here)
- Correlations for all variables (another good starting point)
- How are the correlations calculated?
- Geographical effects (region of affiliation):
- Gender effects:
- Age effects
Discussion and analysis
- On the conception and design of the Survey: Editors' thoughts
- On the results of the Survey: Editors' thoughts
- Factor analysis
