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    Counterexample thought experiments (CTEs) play a prominent role in the ethics literature. A wide range of ethics CTEs have a distinctive feature: they feature forced choices with fixed outcomes. This feature matters because, according to a generally accepted understanding of CTEs' role in philosophical methodology, CTEs work by presenting ...
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    Ethical Issues and Debates. Hobbies, Games, Arts and Crafts. Humour. Natural world, Country Life, and Pets. ... Thought experiments have played a major role in recent moral philosophy. Sometimes thought experiments are enacted in real life, whereas some can only be imagined. The challenge is to come up with a scenario interesting enough to prove.
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    Other thought experiments in ethics are concerned with whether an act of one type is morally equivalent to or morally different from an act of another type and why. A famous example is whether killing is per se morally worse than letting die per se. The comparable question in philosophy of art might be whether one type of artwork (e.g., still ...
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    In Chapter 6, we outlined our approach to apriority, suggesting that a priori knowledge stems from judgments or beliefs formed on the basis of p-justification that does not depend on experience.We argued that all r-necessities are a priori (while remaining neutral on whether there is in addition contingent a priori). We turn now to the particular case of philosophical questions.
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    Ethical Issues and Debates. Hobbies, Games, Arts and Crafts. Humour. Lifestyle, Home, and Garden. ... Unger makes this and other psychological points about thought experiment in "Toward a Psychology of Common Sense," American Philosophical Quarterly 19 : 117-29. 20.
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    Ethical Issues and Debates. Hobbies, Games, Arts and Crafts. Humour. Lifestyle, Home, and Garden. Natural world, Country Life, and Pets. Popular Beliefs and Controversial Knowledge. ... It is suggested that because the contents of thought-experiment judgments are, in many cases, rational necessities, it is possible to know these contents a ...
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    Ethical Issues and Debates. Hobbies, Games, Arts and Crafts. Humour. Lifestyle, Home, and Garden. ... This makes thought experiments logically similar to single‐blind, double‐blind, and triple‐blind experiments, where the force 'blind' is the negative one of excluding knowledge by the subject, treator, and statistician, respectively. ...
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    Ethical Issues and Debates. Hobbies, Games, Arts and Crafts. Humour. Natural world, Country Life, and Pets. ... Thought experiments are all reducible to two highly specific forms of paradox — one targeting statements implying necessities, the other targeting statements implying possibilities. By treating a thought experiment as a stylized ...
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