Consensus, The Progress Towards Atheism, And The Roots Of Agnosticism

Most academic philosophers are atheists. Does it mean we should be too?

Wei Xiang
The Apeiron Blog
Published in
8 min readSep 7, 2021

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Most philosophers are atheists.

The PhilPapers Survey asked 931 academic philosophers if they were “atheists,” “theists,” or “others.” 678 of them (or about 73%) identified themselves as “atheists.”…

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