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Episode Audio

Dave and Tamler talk about the value and purposes of thought\\xa0experiments in philosophy and science. Does the trolley problem tell\\xa0us more about moral psychology than how people make judgments in
trolley problems? Can an imagined scenario about two balls refute an\\xa0almost two thousand year old theory of falling objects? \\xa0When young\\xa0virgin Dave learned all the physical facts about sex, did he learn
anything new when it finally happened? \\xa0All this and more in Part One\\xa0of our two part episode on this topic.

Links

• The experience machine\\xa0[wikipedia.org]

• Mary the color scientist\\xa0[wikipedia.org]

• Zombies\\xa0[wikipedia.org]

• Qualia\\xa0[wikipedia.org]

• The Violinist from "A defense of Abortion"\\xa0[wikipedia.org]

• The Ship of Theseus\\xa0[wikipedia.org]

• Newcomb\'s Paradox\\xa0[wikipedia.org]

• Ring of Gyges\\xa0[wikipedia.org]

• Peter Singer\'s thought experiment\\xa0[wikipedia.org]

• Veil of Ignorance\\xa0[wikipedia.org]

• Galileo\'s Balls\\xa0[philosophical-investigations.org]

• Tamler\'s Zombie Paper

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