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153 thought experiments, organized by philosophical tradition
- Abraham and Isaac
- Absent Qualia
- Achilles and the Tortoise
- Allegory of the Cave
- Barn Facade Variant
- Black Ravens and Green Apples
- Blockhead
- Boltzmann Brain
- Brain in a Vat
- Buridan's Ass
- Child at the Well
- Consequence Argument Scenario
- Counterfactual Mugging
- Dancing Qualia
- Demoktesis
- Eternal Recurrence
- Fading Qualia
- Fake Barn County
- Frankfurt Cases
- Game of Chicken
- Gavagai
- Hilbert's Hotel
- Hume's Billiard Balls
- Hume's Bundle Theory of Self
- Indiscernible Artworks
- Is Consciousness Required?
- James's Indeterminist Choice
- Kant's Murderer at the Door
- Laplace's Demon
- Locked Room Free Will
- Mary's Room
- Maxwell's Demon
- Molyneux's Problem
- Moral Luck
- Moral Saints
- Nāgasena's Chariot
- Newcomb's Problem
- Pascal's Wager
- People-Seeds
- Perfect Forgery
- Perfect Predictor
- Possible Worlds
- Resultant Luck
- Rousseau's State of Nature
- Rowe's Fawn
- Russell's Set Paradox
- Russell's Teapot
- Schrödinger's Cat
- Ship of Theseus
- Swampman
- Taste Machine
- Teletransportation
- The AI Box
- The Allais Paradox
- The Amoeba Split
- The Arrow Paradox
- The Arthritis Case
- The Barber Paradox
- The Beetle in the Box
- The Best Possible World
- The Brain Transplant
- The Brain Upload
- The Butterfly Dream
- The Cartesian Circle
- The Chinese Nation
- The Chinese Room
- The Clairvoyant Case
- The Desert Island
- The Dichotomy Paradox
- The Digital Person Copy
- The Dream Argument
- The Drowning Child
- The Ellsberg Paradox
- The Euthyphro Dilemma
- The Evil Demon
- The Expanding Child
- The Experience Machine
- The Fat Man
- The Fermi Paradox
- The Fission Problem
- The Floating Man
- The Forced Option
- The Free Will Defense
- The Friendship Machine
- The Garden of Forking Paths
- The General Will
- The Gettier Case: Ford in the Office
- The Gettier Case: Smith and Jones
- The Gödel-Schmidt Case
- The Grandfather Paradox
- The Grue Paradox
- The Harmless Torturers
- The Heap of Sand
- The Hobbesian State of Nature
- The Identical Twins Problem
- The Inverted Spectrum
- The Invisible Gardener
- The Invisible Hand
- The Last Human
- The Last Man
- The Leviathan Contract
- The Liar Paradox
- The Lifeboat
- The Lockean State of Nature
- The Loop Trolley
- The Lottery Paradox
- The Mere Addition Paradox
- The Missing Shade of Blue
- The Moral Machine
- The Non-Identity Problem
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
- The Open Question Argument
- The Oracle AI
- The Original Position
- The Orthogonality Thesis
- The Paperclip Maximizer
- The Pasadena Game
- The Perpetual Present
- The Philosophical Zombie
- The Pleasure Pill
- The Preface Paradox
- The Prince and the Cobbler
- The Prisoner's Dilemma
- The Private Language Argument
- The Problem of Dirty Hands
- The Protective Association
- The Raven Paradox
- The Repugnant Conclusion
- The Reversal Test
- The Reward Hacking Agent
- The Ring of Gyges
- The Rule-Following Paradox
- The Satisfied Pig
- The Shallow Pond
- The Simulation Argument
- The Sleeping Beauty Problem
- The Sorites Paradox
- The St. Petersburg Paradox
- The Stag Hunt
- The Stoic Archer
- The Survival Lottery
- The Teletransportation Accident
- The Ticking Bomb
- The Tragedy of the Commons
- The Transplant Surgeon
- The Trolley Problem
- The Turing Imitation Game
- The Unexpected Hanging
- The Universal Law Test
- The Utility Monster
- The Veil of Ignorance
- The Violinist
- The VR Experience Machine
- The Wax Argument
- The Wilt Chamberlain Argument
- TrueTemp
- Turtles All the Way Down
- Twin Earth
- Tyranny of the Majority
- What Can You Actually Know?
- What Makes a Good Dinner Conversation?
- What Makes a Life Go Well?
- Williams's Body Swap
- Wireheading