<p>David and Tamler do another tier ranking--this time on philosophical thought experiments, so as not to further alienate our chemistry-adjacent listeners. We hit most of the big ones: Pascal's wager, Pascal's mugging, Mary the color scientist, the Ring of Gyges, Jarvis Thomson's violinist, the experience machine, the utility monster, and a lot more. Can you guess our grade for the trolley dilemma?</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room">The Chinese Room (Searle)</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon">Descartes' Evil Demon (Descartes)</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine">The Experience Machine (Nozick)</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument">Mary the Color Scientist (F. Jackson)</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> <li><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_mugging">Pascal's Mugging (Yudkowsky/Bostrom)</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> <li><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager">Pascal's Wager (Pascal)</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Gyges">The Ring of Gyges (Plato)</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> <li><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine,_Affluence,_and_Morality">The Shallow Pond (Singer)</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus">The Ship of Theseus (Hobbes)</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem">The Trolley Problem (Philippa Foot/J.J. Thomson)</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_monster">The Utility Monster (Nozick)</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position">The Veil of Ignorance (Rawls)</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> <li><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Defense_of_Abortion">The Violinist (J.J. Thomson)</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> </ul>

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