Philosohpy Survey:

[wolven7]

This survey will upset some of you.It may piss you right off. But it's definitely thought-provoking.

'We hereby welcome both philosophers and non-philosophers alike to help us explore the contours of people’s beliefs, intuitions, and feelings concerning philosophical issues. Unlike experimental philosophy studies in the past, our latest survey is open to philosophy majors, graduate students, and professors! Indeed, one of our goals is to see what effect, if any, philosophical training has on our intuitions. So, please help us out by setting some time aside to participate in our on-line survey. Since the survey involves not just the collection of demographic information and responses to particular cases but also responses to a series of questions designed to give us access into your background beliefs, habits, etc., it admittedly takes a bit longer to complete than the kinds of surveys usually run by experimental philosophers. But since we are likely only going to convince philosophers to play along once, we are trying to be as thorough as possible. So, please answer honestly and patiently! Your answers will be entirely anonymous and it shouldn’t take longer than 30 minutes to complete the survey. And by participating, you will not only help us with our current project, you will also contribute to a data set that will be of interest to social psychologists and philosophers alike. Hopefully, you are willing and able to set aside some of your time this summer to participate. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration.

'To take the survey, just follow this link. Please pass the link on to your friends, colleagues, and students!

'Best wishes,

'Thomas Nadelhoffer and Trevor Kvaran'

Cheers.

Comments

[the-old-songs.livejournal.com]

well the problem with a survey like that is that i sort of thought it was awesome and now I really want to see the results compiled and the conclusions they draw!

[wolven.livejournal.com]

They're working on a paper, or an article, I'm sure, so we'll hear about it, soon enough.

[nausved.livejournal.com]

Could you link it when they have it? (Granted, it may be a few years, if philosophy articles are anything like science articles....)

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't know When it's going to be done, but I will, yeah.

[prosewitch.livejournal.com]

Seconded, I would like to see the results.

I think I understood what some of the questions were getting at, just because I've also constructed interviews and surveys for use in research, so now I'm even more curious! I didn't like some of the phrasing of the questions, but oh well, the whole thing made me think and realize that some of my views have shifted in the last few months (and for the better, I think!).

[wolven.livejournal.com]

They purposely phrased a lot of them to anger people, or at lease discomfort them, I'm sure :)

[davidsfoley.livejournal.com]

done.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Thanks, much.

[cailement.livejournal.com]

Done. Is it bad that I had to look up some of the words in the beginning?

[wolven.livejournal.com]

No. There's a lot of philosophy jargon, in there.

[cailement.livejournal.com]

And we being of the I never had enough electives to take a philosophy coures . . . :) S'what happens when you change your majors junior year, I guess :P

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Heheh, yeah, I guess so :)