ETA: As evidence of the depressing lack of consensus in philosophy, check out the PhilPapers survey. There are only two positions surveyed on which more than 70% of professional philosophers and philosophy Ph.D.’s agree: non-skeptical realism about the external world (76.6%) and scientific realism (70.1%). Atheism comes close with 69.7%. By contrast, there are 16 questions where all the answers have less than 50% support.
So what? I guess the survey just wouldn’t ask questions on which there’s consensus. And if you surveyed physicists about whether they think neutrinos are Majorana particles, whether cosmic rays above 10^19 eV are mostly protons or mostly heavier nuclei, and stuff like that you’d likely get similar results.
If you look at the questions in the survey, pretty much all the big topics covered in an undergraduate philosophy education are represented. It isn’t just a selection of particularly controversial topics. But you’re right that I should have specified this in order for my comment to make sense.
So what? I guess the survey just wouldn’t ask questions on which there’s consensus. And if you surveyed physicists about whether they think neutrinos are Majorana particles, whether cosmic rays above 10^19 eV are mostly protons or mostly heavier nuclei, and stuff like that you’d likely get similar results.
If you look at the questions in the survey, pretty much all the big topics covered in an undergraduate philosophy education are represented. It isn’t just a selection of particularly controversial topics. But you’re right that I should have specified this in order for my comment to make sense.