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32 Post author: lukeprog 16 February 2011 06:53AM

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Comment author: syllogism 16 February 2011 02:52:27PM *  7 points [-]

That PhilPapers survey is rather shocking to me. I knew about the "slow progress", but this is even more extreme than I thought.

Only 52% for physicalism? Majority support for moral realism? Complete indecision between deontology, virtue ethics and consequentialism? Almost complete indecision on the teletransporter problem? I despair...

Comment author: FiftyTwo 04 October 2011 03:43:49PM 0 points [-]

Remember there is a great deal of specialisation in philosophy, so a political philosophers opinion on physicalism may not be accurate. Analogously, even a competent biologist would likely be wrong about the details of quantum mechanics.