Philosophers Welcomed!

Dear Gardeners,

I am posting this in the hopes that you will be able to help Trevor Kvaran, Eddy Nahmias, and I in our efforts to run a new study.  Rather than limiting our attention to the intuitions of the folk, we are actively trying to collect data on the intuitions of philosophy majors, grad students, and professors as well!  Moreover, we are also casting a much larger net than normal by collecting both demographic data and information on participant's background beliefs, judgments, habits, etc.  As a result, the study takes longer than usual to complete, but since we think we could get a really rich and important data set, we hope you will not only set aside some time to take the survey yourself, but that you will also encourage your friends, students, and colleagues to play along.  I even suggest you have your family participate.  I, for one, have had some interesting conversations with mine about philosophy since they took the survey! 

The link to the survey can be found in this post over at the experimental philosophy blog.  Thanks in advance for your time and consideration.

Cheers,
Thomas

Comments

[Alan]

I urge Gardeners to take the survey--it's pretty interesting. . .

And I think as well we in particular should celebrate today--it's Blame Somebody Else Day!! (I suppose hard incompatibilists might demur. . .)

[Noclegi Ustka]

I have a big garden behind house , and working in this place making me happier

[Elaine]

The survey is long but held my interest. Seemed slightly redundant at times. I'm sure this is just some crazy mind trick that I'm not trained to recognize. I've rarely failed a test, but somehow this survey leaves me with the feeling that I earned an 'F'... or at least contradicted myself a few dozen times.

A question for the philosophers (from a gardener - small g):
Do you guys ever get tired of everyone thinking they know philosophy? Or are you able to see philosophical thought as a human thing and accept the constant flow of opinion? I feel that gardening is a basic human need, but as a farmer, I can tell you it's a bit draining to incessantly have people tell you how they grow their tomatoes.

[John Fischer]

Hey, Elaine, thanks for joining us. Well, everyone does think he or she knows philosophy. What bothers me, however, is when people at our "garden" emply too much "fertilizer", as it were. You must have a similar experience sometime!