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  1. philsci-archive.pitt.edu

    Companion to Thought Experiments. Abingdon/New York: Routledge. 195-210. - 1 - Thought Experiments in Ethics Georg Brun Georg.Brun@philo.unibe.ch Abstract This chapter suggests a scheme of reconstruction, which explains how scenarios, questions and arguments figure in thought experiments. It then develops a typology of ethical thought
  2. Thought experiments help us explore philosophical concepts in a more practical way. For example, the trolly problem forces us to confront how we would apply our ethics in a situation. The point of thought experiments isn't to arrive at a specific answer. Instead, thought experiments force us to reason through our ideas and give us insight into ...
  3. Thought experiments have played a pivotal role in many debates within ethicsand in particular within applied ethics-over the past 30 years. Nonetheless, despite their having become a commonly used philosophical tool, there is something odd about the extensive reliance upon thought experiments in areas of philosophy, such as applied ethics, that ...
  4. en.wikipedia.org

    Pages in category "Thought experiments in ethics" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aborting black babies to reduce crime; Atheist's wager; B. Bellum omnium contra omnes; Big Book (thought experiment) C.
  5. plato.stanford.edu

    In fact, thought experiments as a method in ethics have their critics (see, e.g., Dancy 1985). Alternatively, they can provide a different version of the same scenario to challenge the conclusion. It is a very intriguing feature of thought experiments that they can be "rethought" (see Bokulich 2001). Real experiments are frequently open to ...
  6. tandfonline.com

    The use of thought experiments in ethics is partly similar to the use of thought experiments in the sciences. As in the sciences (Sorensen Citation 1992, 191), an actual execution of thought experiments is often impossible in ethics - just think of far-fetched scenarios such as the footbridge version of the trolley cases or Thomson's violinist.
  7. onlinelibrary.wiley.com

    Some of the more famous relatively recent examples of thought experiments in ethics, which vary widely with respect to their realism, include Philippa Foot's notorious "trolley problem," Bernard Williams's story of Jim and the Indians, and Judith Jarvis Thomson's "famous violinist." However, for many newcomers to philosophical ethics ...
  8. philsci-archive.pitt.edu

    This chapter suggests a scheme of reconstruction, which explains how scenarios, questions and arguments figure in thought experiments. It then develops a typology of ethical thought experiments according to their function, which can be epistemic, illustrative, rhetorical, heuristic or theory-internal. Epistemic functions of supporting or refuting ethical claims rely on metaethical assumptions ...
  9. open.library.ubc.ca

    In order to assess the relationship of thought experiments in ethics to their theoretical context, I advocate employing a contextualist methodology involving the process of wide reflective equilibrium. While contextualists use this approach to arrive at considered judgements relating to specific ethical problems, I show that wide reflective ...
  10. philarchive.org

    Thought experiments Ethics Philosophy Theology Pedagogy Teaching Narratives Parables Films. Reprint years. ISBN(s) 9786155579288 6155579288. Analytics. Added to PP 2021-03-31 Downloads 1,462 (#10,294) 6 months 625 (#1,580) Historical graph of downloads since first upload.
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