Two New Surveys

First, Sally Haslanger asked me to make the following announcement about a survey she has undertaken as part of the important Women in Philosophy Task Force:

All professional philosophers are invited to participate in a survey on publishing in philosophy.  It should take about 10 minutes.  It will be useful to have your CV handy as you fill it out.  Please go here If all goes well, Sally Haslanger will report on the results at the December APA in the symposium on philosophy publishing (Wednesday December 30th, 11:15-1:15). Thanks for your help.  Please spread the word.

Second, David Chalmers is running a new survey over at PhilPapers with David Bourget concerning philosophers' views on issues ranging from meta-ethics to the philosophy of time!  Here is how he describes the study:

David Bourget and I have recently launched a new PhilPapers project: the Philosophical Survey.  This is a survey of the philosophical views of members of the philosophy profession and others.  We encourage all professional philosophers, graduate students, and interested others to take part.

The survey contains thirty questions, each giving a choice between 2-4 views on a philosophical issue.  Respondents can indicate that they accept or lean toward one of the options or can give one of a variety of "other" answers.  We have kept the questions as simple as possible, as clarification would be a never-ending process.  The survey also asks for some optional background information.

We have already launched the survey by e-mail to philosophers in 99 leading departments and to users of PhilPapers, and so far we have had responses by around 1000 professional philosophers and 700 others.  We are now opening up the survey publicly so that anyone can take it. The questions focus on issues in analytic philosophy, and will make most sense to those with some experience in the area, but anyone is welcome to take it.  We will publish results for the population of professional philosophers, graduate students, and other groups.

You can take the survey here.  Note that to take the survey, you must either have a PhilPapers account or  create a guest survey account, which will require a valid email address.  If you have received a direct email invitation to take the survey, please use the unique link found in that email instead.  These measures allow us to minimize survey abuse and to maximize the reliability of responses.  For further information about privacy concerns and about the methodology of the survey, see the survey's information page.

Happy polling!

Comments

[Sparkie Arbuckle]

Maybe you experminetal philosophers should get some actual polling methodology (as in consult with a social scientist about how to get a non-crappy sample) instead of just putting surveys on the internet. Its, frankly, a joke. Stop driving the discipline into the ditch.

[Phil]

Hey Sparkie, Not that your ignorant, crappy comment deserves a response, but if you had bothered to read the post you would have noticed that Professors Haslanger and Chalmers aren't interested in a randomized sample. If you had bothered to read any experimental philosophy you would have noticed that this isn't the method experimentalists generally use. You might have also noticed that we occasionally publish with social scientists. Philosophy is supposed to involve thought and reflection. Stop driving the discipline into the ditch.