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Sample restriction: target faculty.
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Main Survey questions

A priori knowledge:no
A priori knowledge:yes
Abstract objects:Platonism
Abstract objects:nominalism
Aesthetic value:objective
Aesthetic value:subjective
Analytic-synthetic distinction:no
Analytic-synthetic distinction:yes
Epistemic justification:externalism
Epistemic justification:internalism
External world:idealism
External world:non-skeptical realism
External world:skepticism
Free will:compatibilism
Free will:libertarianism
Free will:no free will
God:atheism
God:theism
Knowledge claims:contextualism
Knowledge claims:invariantism
Knowledge claims:relativism
Knowledge:empiricism
Knowledge:rationalism
Laws of nature:Humean
Laws of nature:non-Humean
Logic:classical
Logic:non-classical
Mental content:externalism
Mental content:internalism
Meta-ethics:moral anti-realism
Meta-ethics:moral realism
Metaphilosophy:naturalism
Metaphilosophy:non-naturalism
Mind:non-physicalism
Mind:physicalism
Moral judgment:cognitivism
Moral judgment:non-cognitivism
Moral motivation:externalism
Moral motivation:internalism
Newcomb's problem:one box
Newcomb's problem:two boxes
Normative ethics:consequentialism
Normative ethics:deontology
Normative ethics:virtue ethics
Perceptual experience:disjunctivism
Perceptual experience:qualia theory
Perceptual experience:representationalism
Perceptual experience:sense-datum theory
Personal identity:biological view
Personal identity:further-fact view
Personal identity:psychological view
Politics:communitarianism
Politics:egalitarianism
Politics:libertarianism
Proper names:Fregean
Proper names:Millian
Science:scientific anti-realism
Science:scientific realism
Teletransporter:death
Teletransporter:survival
Time:A-theory
Time:B-theory
Trolley problem:don't switch
Trolley problem:switch
Truth:correspondence
Truth:deflationary
Truth:epistemic
Zombies:conceivable but not metaphysically possible
Zombies:inconceivable
Zombies:metaphysically possible

Philosophical orientation

AOS:17th/18th Century Philosophy
AOS:19th Century Philosophy
AOS:20th Century Philosophy
AOS:Aesthetics
AOS:Ancient Greek Philosophy
AOS:Applied Ethics
AOS:Asian Philosophy
AOS:Continental Philosophy
AOS:Decision Theory
AOS:Epistemology
AOS:General Philosophy of Science
AOS:Logic and Philosophy of Logic
AOS:Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
AOS:Meta-Ethics
AOS:Metaphilosophy
AOS:Metaphysics
AOS:Normative Ethics
AOS:Philosophy of Action
AOS:Philosophy of Biology
AOS:Philosophy of Cognitive Science
AOS:Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
AOS:Philosophy of Language
AOS:Philosophy of Law
AOS:Philosophy of Mathematics
AOS:Philosophy of Mind
AOS:Philosophy of Physical Science
AOS:Philosophy of Probability
AOS:Philosophy of Religion
AOS:Philosophy of Social Science
AOS:Social and Political Philosophy
metasurvey:accuracy
tradition:analytic
tradition:continental
xian:Aristotle
xian:Carnap
xian:Davidson
xian:Descartes
xian:Frege
xian:Hegel
xian:Heidegger
xian:Hume
xian:Husserl
xian:Kant
xian:Leibniz
xian:Lewis
xian:Locke
xian:Marx
xian:Mill
xian:Moore
xian:Nietzsche
xian:Plato
xian:Quine
xian:Rawls
xian:Russell
xian:Socrates
xian:Spinoza
xian:Wittgenstein

Background questions

affil:discipline:Philosophy
affil:region:Australasia
affil:region:Canada
affil:region:Europe
affil:region:United Kingdom
affil:region:United States
gender:female
gender:male
nationality_region:Australasia
nationality_region:Canada
nationality_region:Europe
nationality_region:Other
nationality_region:United Kingdom
nationality_region:United States
phd_region:Australasia
phd_region:Canada
phd_region:Europe
phd_region:United Kingdom
phd_region:United States
response_time
year_of_birth
year_of_phd