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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.
In ethics, the plank of Carneades is a thought experiment first proposed by the Academic Skeptic philosopher Carneades of Cyrene. It explores the concept of self-defense in relation to murder. In the thought experiment, there are two shipwrecked sailors, A and B. They both see a plank that can only support one of them and both of them swim ...
One of the dilemmas included in the trolley problem: is it preferable to pull the lever to divert the runaway trolley onto the side track? The trolley problem is a series of thought experiments in ethics, psychology, and artificial intelligence involving stylized ethical dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number.
The Heinz dilemma is a frequently used example in many ethics and morality classes. One well-known version of the dilemma, used in Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development, is stated as follows: [1] A woman was on her deathbed.
Killing baby Hitler is a thought experiment in ethics and theoretical physics which poses the question of using time travel to assassinate an infant Adolf Hitler. It presents an ethical dilemma in both the action and its consequences, as well as a temporal paradox in the logical consistency of time.
Thought experiments in ethics (40 P) M. Thought experiments in philosophy of mind (20 P) Pages in category "Thought experiments in philosophy" The following 42 pages ...
A thought experiment, or gedanken experiment, is a proposal for an experiment that would test or illuminate a hypothesis, theory, or principle. Subcategories. This ...
The survival lottery is a thought experiment, proposed by the philosopher John Harris.The basis of the idea is to ask people to imagine if organ donation were expected to save more individuals than it would kill.