Episode 51: Zombies, Trolleys, and Galileo's Balls

Episode Audio Dave and Tamler talk about the value and purposes of thought  experiments in philosophy and science. Does the trolley problem tell  us more about moral psychology than how people make judgments in trolley problems? Can an imagined scenario about two balls refute an  almost two thousand year old theory of falling objects?  When young  virgin Dave learned all the physical facts about sex, did he learn anything new when it finally happened?  All this and more in Part One  of our two part episode on this topic. Links The experience machine [wikipedia.org] Mary the color scientist [wikipedia.org] Zombies [wikipedia.org] Qualia [wikipedia.org] The Violinist from "A defense of Abortion" [wikipedia.org] The Ship of Theseus [wikipedia.or