What do readers think of contemporary Anglophone ethics?

Over 1700 responses to our most recent poll, and here are the results:  a bit more than half (54%) thought it "a central, foundational part of the discipline," while another 22% deemed it an "important area of research"--so fully three-quarters of respondents thought it a significant field.  11% conceded it was "useful" when informed by the empirical sciences, while 4% thought it only a "minor" area of research.  9% chose the most critical response, deeming it "pointless emoting by bourgeois academics" of "sociological, not philosophical interest."

I'll do a few more of these, and then aggregate all the results in a single post.

rea of research.

22%

Useful when it is informed by the empirical social sciences.

11%

A minor area, but worth pursuing.

4%

Pointless emoting by bourgeois academics, of sociological but not philosophical interest.

9%

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