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Great Course The Power of Thought Experiments

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What this book knows

Thought experiments are philosophy's sharpest tools for testing identity, free will, consciousness, and moral intuition against our own resistance.

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self-and-identity

It seems like you have survived twice. On the other hand, it doesn't seem like you could have survived twice, if survival requires identity.
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For Aristotle, the body and the soul are so intimately connected that the only way we can grasp the soul is in relation to the body.
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mind-and-cognition

We don't need to talk about the extended mind to talk about how our minds utilize noncognitive resources like notebooks, computers, search engines.
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Schrödinger considered what he called a quite ridiculous case—a cat in a steel chamber, its fate entangled with a single radioactive atom's decay.
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obedience-and-authority

Frankfurt-style cases shift attention away from the ability to do otherwise toward the power to be the sources of our actions.
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Tom is treated harshly by having his testimony dismissed based on negative stereotypes—his ability to impart knowledge is undermined in a way that degrades him.
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