Morteza Tabatabaei

University of Religions and Denominations

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: understanding
Analytic-synthetic distinction Accept: yes
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Epistemic justification Lean towards: externalism
Experience machine The question is too unclear to answer
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Free will Lean towards: libertarianism
Gender Lean towards: biological
God Accept: theism
Knowledge Lean towards: empiricism
Knowledge claims Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Lean towards: classical
Meaning of life Lean towards: objective
Mental content Lean towards: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: naturalism
Mind Accept: physicalism
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Lean towards: externalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: two boxes
Normative ethics Lean towards: virtue ethics
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept Conceptual analysis is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Empirical philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Experimental philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean against Formal philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Neutral towards Intuition-based philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
  • Lean towards Linguistic philosophy is among the most useful/important methods of philosophy
Philosophical progress Lean towards: a little
Political philosophy Lean towards: libertarianism
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Race Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards Race is biological
  • Lean towards Race is social
  • Lean against Race is unreal
Science Accept: scientific realism
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Time Lean towards: A-theory
Trolley problem Lean towards: switch
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Vagueness Agnostic/undecided
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible