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    Gabriele Taylor was my undergraduate philosophy tutor at St Anne’s College, Oxford from 1989-1992. I remember her as an incisive…

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Over 1200 philosophers have spoken on how we should respond to “analytic metaphysics”…

…and we now know something, but I'm not sure what (other than a lot of philosophers don't like analytic metaphysics):

Yeah!
   19%
Just say "No"!
   10%
Prison
   5%
Ridicule and contempt
   13%
Praise and glory
   12%
Ignore it
   23%
None of the above
   20%
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31% of respondents have a positive view of "analytic metaphysics," 28% a fairly negative view, and 23% say we should just "ignore it."  Since "analytic metaphysics" is a current prestige area of philosophy–well-represented at all the leading PhD programs–some of this may be tainted a bit with jealousy.   Certainly I wish actual fields with cognitive criteria, like the ones I work in, were as important on the contemporary landscape!

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