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thought experiment
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Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Dec 14, 2005 2 facts
procedureTo test the claim that perceptual experience is necessarily a source of justification, one can use thought experiments to conceive of a possible world where a person sees an object that looks blue, but that experience provides no justification for believing the object is blue.
claimTo test the validity of independence foundationalism, one can use thought experiments to conceive of a possible world where perceptual experience does not provide justification for belief, such as a scenario where seeing an object as blue provides no justification for believing it is blue.
David Chalmers - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
claimIn 1995, David Chalmers proposed the "fading qualia" thought experiment, a reductio ad absurdum argument involving the progressive replacement of brain neurons with functional equivalents, such as those implemented on a silicon chip, to argue that the subject would not notice a change in consciousness.
claimDavid Chalmers proposed the 'dancing qualia' thought experiment, which concludes that a robotic brain functionally isomorphic to a biological one would possess the same conscious experiences, such as the same perception of color when seeing an object.
David Chalmers on the Hard Problem of Consciousness : r/philosophy reddit.com Jul 29, 2020 1 fact
claimThe philosophical zombie thought experiment is a thought exercise designed to demonstrate that individuals could theoretically behave like humans without possessing the qualia of consciousness.
Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimParticularists in epistemology begin their inquiry by examining specific cases and using intuitions about concrete instances and thought experiments as methodological constraints for general theories.
Social Epistemology - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu Jul 24, 2024 1 fact
referenceIn Plato's Meno, a thought experiment involving a travel guide raises the question of whether a guide must possess actual knowledge to be reliable, or if merely having a true belief is sufficient for reliability (Cooper, 1997).
7.1 What Epistemology Studies - Introduction to Philosophy | OpenStax openstax.org Jun 15, 2022 1 fact
claimIn epistemology, counterexamples typically take the form of hypothetical cases or thought experiments designed to show that a definition includes features that are either not necessary or not sufficient for the concept.
Epistemology of Testimony | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
claimJennifer Lackey presents a second thought experiment involving a person who suffers from matching misperceptions and pathological lies, where the person consistently misidentifies zebras as elephants but has a pathological urge to tell people that what she sees are zebras.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimAnti-physicalist and anti-dualist thought experiments seem intuitive because they are prima facie conceivable but not ideally conceivable.
The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective frontiersin.org Nov 25, 2024 1 fact
claimThought experiments are logical exercises that do not depend on a commitment to any one theoretical framework, but follow a line of argument to its logical conclusion.