Most Philosophers are Atheists

Details here.

HT: Prosblogion and Bradley Monton

UPDATE: Trent Dougherty takes an optimistic view of it, here. It'll be interesting to see how the comments play out on his post.

4 comments:

Wes said...

Your "details" link is to the Phil of Religion AOS, which has more theists than atheists.

Wes said...

It's weird how different the responses are from those with the Phil of Rel AOS on all the issues.

exapologist said...

Whoops -- Thanks for the correction. Must've fiddled with it before posting. Originally, it was on "Philosophy faculty or PhD" and "all respondents". I think I've fixed it now. Let me know if I've flubbed up anything else.

Anonymous said...

This survey made an interesting discussion topic for the first few minutes of my metaethics course this morning. I'm a little surprised at some of the results, personally, but I've noticed that I have some pretty non-standard intuitions, lol.

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