Thought experiment

Norcross’s Fred thought experiment is an imaginative scenario in which he tries to draw a comparison to factory farms in the United states to discuss the morality of them. In his scenario, a man named Fred is on trial for torturing puppies. Fred’s defense is that torturing the puppies provides him with a pleasure to taste the goodness of chocolate, the sense in which he can’t attain any other way due to an accident that happened to him. Although ridiculous, the story is analogous to factory farms in a moral sense. The question now becomes, is Fred’s behavior morally wrong? If his behavior is wrong this means that buying food from factory farms are morally wrong as well. I am going to argue that Fred’s behavior is morally wrong using Immanuel Kant’s thoughts on duties to animals.…

Meno asks Socrates why knowledge is prized far more than true opinion. To answer this, Socrates tells Meno that true opinion becomes knowledge through thought and recollection of what is true. Thus, true opinion is an unjustified belief while knowledge is a justified belief. So knowledge, in being justified, is more valuable than opinion. But what makes knowledge justified and what is justification? Socrates claims that true opinion becomes knowledge when one provides a reason for why the…

This hypothetical does not remove the examiner from the confines of reality in order to truly examine the base aspects of the thought experiment. A true hypothetical is one where it sets aside the majority of facts concerning a situation and leaves the examiner with only the barest of skeletons to examine morally. “…It is hard to see why it would be helpful to set aside relevant facts about torture since the matter under consideration is the moral permissibility of the practice of…

His analogy, of the just ruler and the unjust ruler ie tyrant, act as a launching point between the physical acts of the unjust, and that these people are themselves unjust because of said actions. This is where I run into a bit of a bridge, as Socrates tends to leap from the physical act of tyranny and attributing this as an immoral and unjust soul because of said action. Almost creating this black/white relationship of the just/unjust, and thus oversimplifying the realities of political rule…

1. Introduction Let us say that a phenomenal quality or concept, as I will use the terms interchangeably, is “a feature of a conscious state that is notable introspectively, ostensively, as that aspect of the state, the way it feels, appears, etc.” (Loar, 81). The knowledge argument objects to physicalism through establishing conscious experiences as having non-physical properties. In “Epiphenomenal Qualia”, Frank Jackson proposes a thought experiment in which a brilliant neuroscientist named…

On November 11, 2002, A person name Jacob Higgins was born. His specialties include: Staying inside, gaming, sleeping, and watching youtube. One time, he went to school. He didn’t like it that much. He is currently in school right now writing this paper in third person. Hopefully the person reading this doesn’t mind. Anyway, he wants to program a game. Unfortunately, he will probably won’t achieve this. This is pretty much all. Is it? No. He likes to swim. He has friends. 7 I think? Recently,…

One of the main points of the Knowledge Argument is that one can have all of the physical information without having all of the information there is to have. Frank Jackson believes that this applies to any of the senses, such as sight, “taste, hearing, the bodily sensations and generally speaking for the various mental states which are said to have (as it is variously put) raw feels, phenomenal features or qualia” (130). To support this argument he gave examples of a man named Fred who could see…

least thirty different experiments on prisoners (Tyson, "The Experiments"). They weren’t crazy scientists, rather they were actually well-learned doctors. They’re crimes to humanity were well planned and thought out. They tried to hide the evidence of what they had done, even years later their samples still remain. Nazi human experimentation, though not well known, was one of the most horrific parts of World War II. The experiments were centered in many concentration camps perform by former…

More than just games, it is how we stay in touch with our primary group and remain connected to the world at large. This was completely true. When we abstained from technology for as long as we did, we took out a key component in our lives. This completely changed how we functioned on a day-to-day basis, and what we did not understand was that we could not adapt so easily. By day 3, we were feeling the effects that the lack of technology was having on us, and by day 5, we were completely ready…

The experiment discussed in this article set out to determine if conditions of high anxiety, increased sexual attraction. They hypothesized that males who come across an attractive female while experiencing a strong emotion such as fear will find the female more attractive than by males not experiencing a strong emotion, which is also the alternative hypothesis. The independent variable is a strong emotion such as fear. This was operationalized by participants being on an unsteady bridge that…