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Professor Boespflug asked me to share the following with readers:
Jonathan Spelman and Mark Boespflug are empirically measuring consensus and disagreement in ethics and they need your help to do it! They need philosophers--especially ethicists--to complete their survey on a variety of ethical issues. If you are able to spend 15 minutes completing it, they would greatly appreciate it.
You can find the survey here.
A little more about the survey:
Consensus and disagreement within the scientific community are epistemically significant. Numerous consensus studies have given us a good sense of what scientists, as a group, think about climate change, and whether it is human-caused. We speculate that consensus and disagreement are, likewise, epistemically significant in ethics. As a consequence, we think they should be empirically measured. But there is currently little or no empirical data on what philosophers, or ethicists more specifically, think about various ethical issues. We’re also in the dark about how their views might differ from the population at large. It would be valuable, then, to gain a clearer sense of whether and to what extent there are issues upon which ethicists largely converge.
Our goal is to try to answer these questions, but to do that we need your help. And tell your friends! The more data we are able to collect, the better sense we will have for what philosophers and ethicists think about ethical issues.
Thank you for your help and best wishes,
Mark Boespflug and Jonathan Spelman
UPDATE: A Canadian reader writes:
I just completed the survey you shared on Leiter Reports. I think it might be worth adding a note to your post, informing non-American readers that the survey is very, very US-specific in regards to the contents and frame of its questions, both intentionally and (I dare say) unintentionally. I found it rather conspicuous and jarring as a non-American respondent.
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