David Bourget and David Chalmers have released the results of the largest survey of professional philosophers ever conducted. Some interesting results:
72.8% atheism
14.6% theism
12.5% other
49.8% naturalism
25.8% non-naturalism (but not necessarily supernaturalism)
24.2% other
Of course, quite what any of this shows re the truth of any of these beliefs, if anything, can be debated….
tildeb
Questionable Motives 
Fascinating indeed.
Fascinating blog on a whole. Both the information you provide and the comments. Yours is the first one since having signed up a few weeks ago that I check out on a regular basis. I’m learning a lot from it.
Comment by thebooreport — January 9, 2010 @ 7:05 am |
That’s either a compliment for Questionable Motives or a self-criticism of your current level of information! I’ll go with the compliment and look forward to your comments.
Comment by tildeb — January 9, 2010 @ 9:52 pm |
And either you’re being modest about your blog, or that’s a subtle insult of my level of knowledge :p. I take it you’re just being modest 😀
Comment by thebooreport — January 9, 2010 @ 10:29 pm |
Woops… If you could edit out that second “insult” in my above comment that’d be great 🙂
Comment by thebooreport — January 9, 2010 @ 10:32 pm |
Done.
Comment by tildeb — January 9, 2010 @ 11:52 pm |