You are correct, this is definitely preliminary analysis. I wanted to get a rough picture of the rankings. Interestingly enough I found that there was a fairly clear relationship between “controversy” and increasing percentage of “Other” responses, which to me makes sense. You bring up an interesting quandary – should a consensus of “Other” be defined as consensus at all?

I’m currently working on the finer data sets and breaking it up by faculty/etc. My only concern with posting “agreed upon” stances is that I have to define a cutoff where “agreement” no longer occurs. Perhaps I’ll highlight for the top five questions.

Thanks for the comments!

In the case of the A theory vs. B theory of time, for example, “Other” was the apparent top response with a consensus of 58%. But when you change the settings to “fine” you see that the top response was actually “Insufficiently familiar with the issue” at 30%.

So you might want to go back and correct your information. Also, it might help to post what stance it was that the philosophers agreed on. It’s one thing to know that philosophers have a high level of agreement regarding empiricism vs. rationalism, for example, that that doesn’t tell you whether they agreed on empiricism or rationalism.