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    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
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    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 ...
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    Identity Thesis: Thought experiments are (type)-identical with arguments.1 Reconstruction Thesis: Thought experiments "can always be reconstructed as arguments" (Norton 2004a, 1142).2 Reliability Thesis: A thought experiment is a "reliable mode of inquiry" only if the
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    experiments or thought experiment-like inferences by considering them. So in Part I, we tentatively expand our notion of thought experiment, while still covering the cases that are most discussed in the literature. We hope this provides a balance between historical scholarship on well-known thought experiments and those that are less well-known.
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    Bokulich, Alisa and Frappier, Mélanie (2017) On the Identity of Thought Experiments: Thought Experiments Rethought. The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments. Brown, James Robert (2021) Rigour and Thought Experiments: Burgess and Norton. [Preprint] Brun, Georg (2017) Thought Experiments in Ethics. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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    Stuart ends with some considerations about the ethics of scientific storytelling, and the effects of storytelling on the scientific imagination. The contribution by Fehige ("The Annus Mirabilis of 1986: Thought Experiments & Scientific ... that performing a thought experiment produces a new phenomenon in the mindThis . phenomenon can serve as ...
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    Rather than the discovery of new facts the purpose of a successful thought experiment is to transform vague intuitions about nature into explanatory standards, which may be uses later on as normative principles or formal constraints in the formation of new theories. The author later wrote a Dr.-phil.-thesis on this subject: "Die Methode des ...
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    Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments, edited by Mike Stuart and James Brown (2016). Kirk Ludwig. ... ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, the nature of experimental philosophy, cross-cultural research, and miscellaneous other topics. Not all of these papers, however, fit the paradigm of survey philosophy examined here.
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    A third option is to portray TEs as actual experiments (Sorensen 1992; Buzzoni 2008; Stuart 2016b). But what is an experiment? It seems there are at least two options: an experiment is a set of actions that people perform, or it is a set of instructions for actions that people could perform. TEs can be interpreted as experiments in either way.
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