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    Thought experiments are devices of the imagination used to investigate the nature of things. They are used for diverse reasons in a variety of areas, including economics, history, mathematics, philosophy, and the sciences, especially physics. Most often thought experiments are communicated in narrative form, frequently with diagrams.
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    Some ethical thought experiments (such as the veil) can be applied to a variety of moral issues. On the basis of this understanding of thought experiments we highlighted several ways in which the use of thought experiments in experimental ethics can be philosophically relevant. Such studies can in particular inform us about the content of the ...
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    Some philosophers think that ethical thought experiments either are, or have a strong affinity with, scientific experiments. On such a view, thought experiments, like other experiments, when well-designed can allow knowledge to be built via rigorous and unbiased testing of hypotheses. Just as in the randomised controlled trials in which new ...
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    Welcome to the nexus of ethics, psychology, morality, technology, health care, and philosophy ... Diametros 17 (2020), 64: 72-89 doi: 10.33392/diam.1499 Abstract This paper discusses "impartiality thought experiments", i.e., thought experiments that attempt to generate intuitions which are unaffected by personal characteristics such as ...
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    From Swampmen to runaway trolleys, philosophers make routine use of thought experiments. But our students are not always so enthusiastic. Most teachers of introductory philosophy will be familiar with the problem: students push back against the use of thought experiments, and not for the reasons that philosophers are likely to accept.
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    Welcome to the Nexus of Ethics, Psychology, Morality, Philosophy and Health Care. Welcome to the nexus of ethics, psychology, morality, technology, health care, and philosophy. Wednesday, September 3, 2014. Is One of the Most Popular Psychology Experiments Worthless? By Olga Khazan The Atlantic Originally published July 24, 2014 Here is an excerpt:
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    In both experiments, people judged that altering some moral facts was impossible—not even God could turn morally wrong acts into morally right acts. Strikingly, people thought that God could make physically impossible and logically impossible events occur.
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    Across eight experiments (N = 2,310), we studied whether people would prioritize rescuing individuals who may be thought to contribute more to society. We found that participants were generally dismissive of general rules that prioritize more socially beneficial individuals, such as doctors instead of unemployed people.
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    A thought experiment presents an imagined scenario (often because it wouldn't be viable to perform the experiment in real life) to test intuitions about the consequences. Video games, too, are made up of counterfactual narratives that test the player: here is a scenario, what would you do?
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    The theory of representational exchange reveals connections between rationalization and theory of mind, inverse reinforcement learning, thought experiments, and reflective equilibrium. From the Conclusion But human action is also shaped by non-rational forces. In these cases, any answer to the question Why did I do that?

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