PhilPapers 2020 Survey on Beliefs: Nothing Asked, Nothing Revealed

The 2020 PhilPapers Survey purports to measure philosophers' positions on God via the binary "atheism or theism?" Yet this framing systematically excludes non-dual metaphysical traditions (Advaita Vedanta, Sufi monorealism, Buddhist emptiness, Daoist naturalism) where "God" is neither affirmed as a separate entity nor denied as non-existent, but recognized as the undifferentiated ground of all appearance. With only 3.45% selecting "alternative view" and no dedicated option for non-categorical positions, the survey enforces Western dualistic ontology while masquerading as neutral measurement. I argue that the survey's design presupposes the equation 1 ≠ 0 (separation-based ontology) as ultimate truth while excluding positions that recognize 1 = 0 (the mathematically valid zero ring where all apparent distinctions dissolve into groundless ground) as the foundation of reality. This methodological flaw renders the oft-cited statistic ("67% of philosophers are atheists") epistemically suspect—not a discovery about "what philosophers believe" but an artifact of categorical violence against non-dual philosophy.