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Posted: **Sat Jan 29, 2022 8:08 am**

62% Philosophers Surveyed Accept Moral Realism -2020
https://survey2020.philpeople.org/survey/results/4866

Accept or lean towards: moral realism 62.07% (61.55%)
Reject or lean against: moral realism 0.35% (0.00%)

Accept or lean towards: moral anti-realism 26.12% (25.77%)
Reject or lean against: moral anti-realism 0.41% (0.00%)

Accept a combination of views 0.93%
Accept an alternative view 2.44%
The question is too unclear to answer 3.49%
There is no fact of the matter 0.87%
Agnostic/undecided 4.25%
Other 0.70%

Moral realism (also ethical realism) is the position that ethical sentences express propositions that refer to objective features of the world (that is, features independent of subjective opinion), some of which may be true to the extent that they report those features accurately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_realism#:

Views?

Posted: **Sat Jan 29, 2022 8:16 am**

Note
Survey: 56% of Philosophers Accept Moral Realism -2019
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=30893

The above 2019 is not precisely comparable to the 2020 survey because the respondents are not the same.
However the larger % in both survey that accept Moral Realism is indicative of the point.

Posted: **Sat Jan 29, 2022 11:07 am**

Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Sat Jan 29, 2022 8:08 am
Views?

Define 'philosopher'?

Posted: **Sat Jan 29, 2022 11:16 am**

9 out of 8 people don't understand statistics

-Imp

Posted: **Sat Jan 29, 2022 3:55 pm**

"62% Philosophers Surveyed Accept Moral Realism"

That's because 62% of philosophers have never had to make difficult decisions.

One is not qualified to forward a theory of morality unless and until they have fallen into the gaping jaws of experience

Posted: **Sun Jan 30, 2022 5:43 am**

Note the above is merely a statement from a survey done by
https://philpapers.org/
which is a reputable philosophical site.

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Our index currently contains 2,630,900 entries categorized in 5,723 categories. PhilPapers has over 290,000 registered users.
https://philpapers.org/

Obviously we must not accept the results of the above blindly must do further research for more verifications and justifications.

However, given the above views from the survey, those [like Peter Holmes, etc.] who insist that moral realism and objective moral statements are nonsense should think twice about their dogmatic views.

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