Below are some currently "hot" topics/areas/methods in philosophy. Some may be of lasting significane, but almost all come up when philosophers discuss "fads" that ought to fade away because they lack real philosophical merit. Rank order these areas below from the most "faddish" (i.e., ought to fade away) to the least.
| 1. Epistemic injustice (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices) |
| 2. Experimental Philosophy loses to Epistemic injustice by 388–312 |
| 3. Critical Race Theory loses to Epistemic injustice by 334–323, loses to Experimental Philosophy by 351–340 |
| 4. Effective altruism loses to Epistemic injustice by 414–289, loses to Critical Race Theory by 364–270 |
| 5. Grounding loses to Epistemic injustice by 404–279, loses to Effective altruism by 335–314 |
| 6. Footnotes to Rawls loses to Epistemic injustice by 444–232, loses to Grounding by 327–285 |
| 7. Epistemic modals loses to Epistemic injustice by 441–201, loses to Footnotes to Rawls by 292–248 |
| 8. Knowledge first loses to Epistemic injustice by 440–206, loses to Epistemic modals by 259–249 |
| 9. Contextualism loses to Epistemic injustice by 444–199, loses to Knowledge first by 280–253 |
| 10. Non-naturalist normative realism loses to Epistemic injustice by 459–181, loses to Contextualism by 272–248 |
| 11. Reasons loses to Epistemic injustice by 449–189, loses to Non-naturalist normative realism by 254–247 |
| 12. Formal epistemology loses to Epistemic injustice by 472–194, loses to Reasons by 271–270 |
| 13. Political realism loses to Epistemic injustice by 440–160, loses to Formal epistemology by 253–230 |
| 14. Prioritarianism loses to Epistemic injustice by 457–124, loses to Political realism by 218–204 |
For simplicity, some details of the poll result are not shown.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Epistemic injustice | - | 388 | 334 | 414 | 404 | 444 | 441 | 440 | 444 | 459 | 449 | 472 | 440 | 457 | |
| 2. Experimental Philosophy | 312 | - | 351 | 373 | 400 | 424 | 428 | 437 | 461 | 458 | 466 | 487 | 457 | 449 | |
| 3. Critical Race Theory | 323 | 340 | - | 364 | 359 | 398 | 365 | 383 | 383 | 400 | 392 | 405 | 372 | 399 | |
| 4. Effective altruism | 289 | 326 | 270 | - | 335 | 334 | 366 | 356 | 382 | 390 | 379 | 399 | 377 | 371 | |
| 5. Grounding | 279 | 304 | 291 | 314 | - | 327 | 337 | 339 | 373 | 361 | 395 | 400 | 357 | 349 | |
| 6. Footnotes to Rawls | 232 | 255 | 218 | 260 | 285 | - | 292 | 285 | 313 | 335 | 333 | 349 | 316 | 343 | |
| 7. Epistemic modals | 201 | 221 | 227 | 217 | 242 | 248 | - | 259 | 291 | 287 | 309 | 325 | 303 | 290 | |
| 8. Knowledge first | 206 | 225 | 214 | 240 | 224 | 261 | 249 | - | 280 | 295 | 303 | 297 | 281 | 288 | |
| 9. Contextualism | 199 | 216 | 212 | 223 | 223 | 249 | 234 | 253 | - | 272 | 295 | 294 | 282 | 282 | |
| 10. Non-naturalist normative realism | 181 | 204 | 193 | 192 | 207 | 200 | 217 | 203 | 248 | - | 254 | 277 | 255 | 231 | |
| 11. Reasons | 189 | 201 | 219 | 235 | 191 | 231 | 223 | 227 | 257 | 247 | - | 271 | 262 | 249 | |
| 12. Formal epistemology | 194 | 165 | 201 | 206 | 187 | 206 | 183 | 227 | 243 | 240 | 270 | - | 253 | 247 | |
| 13. Political realism | 160 | 149 | 170 | 161 | 180 | 188 | 176 | 196 | 205 | 199 | 226 | 230 | - | 218 | |
| 14. Prioritarianism | 124 | 144 | 137 | 144 | 166 | 143 | 167 | 172 | 188 | 205 | 210 | 214 | 204 | - |
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