🧩 Philosophy Apr 2, 2026 · Justin Weinberg

Philosophy: More Empirical Than Ever

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“In the early 1970s, fewer than 10% of articles cited any empirical sources. However, by the 2020s, this grew to over 50%.”
That finding is from a new study by Michael Prinzing (Wake Forest University), “The Role of Empirical Evidence in Philosophy,” forthcoming in Synthese.
Prinzing used a GPT model to examine the citations in 38,442 articles published across 21 highly-regarded philosophy journals between 1970 and 2024, and then manually classified the most frequently-ci

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