![Episode 52: Thought Experiments (Huh!) What Are They Good For? (Part 2)](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/5751EEB67748836B1B24AD56907F794A_small.jpg)
Episode 52: Thought Experiments (Huh!) What Are They Good For? (Part 2)
Om avsnittet
Experience Machines, Chinese Rooms, Original Positions, and Ice Buckets. ("I don't know what you have in mind for this evening Homer, but count me out!") Dave and Tamler continue their discussion on thought experiments--how they can be effective, the difference between their use in philosophy and psychology, and how they can spin out of control like deadly viruses and become the disease they were trying to cure. Plus, do our motives matter when it comes to raising money for charity? Links Chinese Room thought experiment [wikipedia.org] Turing Test [wikipedia.org] Ice bucket challenge [alsa.org] Weird Al Yankovic does the Ice Bucket Challenge [youtube.com] Flight of the Conchords "Pro-Aids" [youtube.com] Rawls' Original Position [plato.stanford.edu] The Veil of Ignorance [wikipedia.org] Press Your Luck "No Whammies!" [youtube.com] Behaviorism [wikipedia.org] Logical positivism [wikipedia.org] Support Very Bad Wizards
Senaste avsnitten
![Very Bad Wizards](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/5751EEB67748836B1B24AD56907F794A_small.jpg)
Episode 287: Gods With Anuses (The Denial of Death Pt. 1)
![Very Bad Wizards](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/5751EEB67748836B1B24AD56907F794A_small.jpg)
Episode 286: Laugh and the World Laughs With You
![Very Bad Wizards](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/5751EEB67748836B1B24AD56907F794A_small.jpg)
Episode 285: On Culture and Agriculture
![Very Bad Wizards](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/5751EEB67748836B1B24AD56907F794A_small.jpg)
Episode 284: Reel Choices
![Very Bad Wizards](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/5751EEB67748836B1B24AD56907F794A_small.jpg)
Episode 283: When Elephants Podcast
![Very Bad Wizards](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/5751EEB67748836B1B24AD56907F794A_small.jpg)
Episode 282: Fearful Symmetry (Borges' "Death and the Compass")
![Very Bad Wizards](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/5751EEB67748836B1B24AD56907F794A_small.jpg)
Episode 281: Choose Your Fighter
![Very Bad Wizards](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/5751EEB67748836B1B24AD56907F794A_small.jpg)
Episode 280: Mad Masque (with Phil Ford and J.F. Martel)
![Very Bad Wizards](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/5751EEB67748836B1B24AD56907F794A_small.jpg)
Episode 279: The Greenhouses We Burned Along the Way (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 2)
![Very Bad Wizards](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/5751EEB67748836B1B24AD56907F794A_small.jpg)