Vladimir_Nesov comments on Open Thread: December 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 08 December 2009 11:16:13PM *  3 points [-]

David Chalmers surveys the kinds of crazy believed by modern philosophers, as well as their own predictions of the results of the survey.

56% of target faculty responding favor (i.e. accept or lean toward) physicalism, while 27% favor nonphysicalism (for respondents as a whole, the figure is 54:29). A priori knowledge is favored by 71-18%, an analytic-synthetic distinction is favored by 65-27%, Millianism is favored over Fregeanism by 34-29%, while the view that zombies are conceivable but not metaphysically possible is favored over metaphysical possibility and conceivability respectively by 35-23-16% respectively.