Aug 12, 2014
Dave and Tamler talk about the value and purposes of
thought experiments in philosophy and science.
Does the trolley problem tell us more about moral
psychology than how people make judgments in
trolley problems? Can an imagined scenario about two balls
refute an almost two thousand year old theory of
falling objects? When young virgin Dave
learned all the physical facts about sex, did he learn
anything new when it finally happened? All this and
more in Part One of our two part episode on this
topic.
The experience machine [wikipedia.org]
Mary the color scientist [wikipedia.org]
Zombies [wikipedia.org]
Qualia [wikipedia.org]
The Violinist from "A defense of Abortion" [wikipedia.org]
The Ship of Theseus [wikipedia.org]
Newcomb's Paradox [wikipedia.org]
Ring of Gyges [wikipedia.org]
Peter Singer's thought experiment [wikipedia.org]
Veil of Ignorance [wikipedia.org]
Galileo's Balls [philosophical-investigations.org]