{"id":12034,"date":"2009-12-08T16:51:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/08\/the-sociology-of-philosophy-a-philpapers-survey\/"},"modified":"2009-12-08T16:51:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:51:37","slug":"the-sociology-of-philosophy-a-philpapers-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/08\/the-sociology-of-philosophy-a-philpapers-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sociology of Philosophy:  A PhilPapers Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">What percentage of philosophers are atheists?&#0160; What percentage theists?&#0160; Are there more compatibilists than libertarians when it comes to the freedom of the will?&#0160; More libertarians than deniers of free will?&#0160; These are questions in the sociology of philosophy.&#0160; The general public has wildly inaccurate beliefs in this area, but practicing philosophers also cherish misconceptions.&#0160; <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/philpapers.org\/surveys\/\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Here<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> are the results of a sophisticated PhilPapers survey.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Mildly interesting, but what does this contribute to philosophy?&#0160; I was pleased to see that a solid majority favors the analytic-synthetic distinction.&#0160; But surely I cannot use this merely sociological fact as any part of my justification for accepting&#0160;the &#0160;distinction.&#0160; Or can I?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What percentage of philosophers are atheists?&#0160; What percentage theists?&#0160; Are there more compatibilists than libertarians when it comes to the freedom of the will?&#0160; More libertarians than deniers of free will?&#0160; These are questions in the sociology of philosophy.&#0160; The general public has wildly inaccurate beliefs in this area, but practicing philosophers also cherish misconceptions.&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/08\/the-sociology-of-philosophy-a-philpapers-survey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Sociology of Philosophy:  A PhilPapers Survey&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphilosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}