Sentence examples for philosophical experiments from inspiring English sources

Tetens' major work, Philosophische Versuche über die menschliche Natur und ihre Entwickelung (1777; "Philosophical Experiments on Human Nature and Its Development"), shows the influence of Kant's Dissertation (1770).

Subtitled 'Paradoxes, Puzzles and the Frailty of Knowledge', this is a profound and endlessly fascinating collection of philosophical experiments that leave the reader unable to settle back into old and lazy ways of thinking.

Philosophical experiments have shown, for example, that while most people feel sure that a 98-pound weakling can become a strongman, they also intuit that a black person can't become white, no matter what physical characteristics he changes.

So nitrous oxide went from philosophical experiments, to the seamy world of carnivals and fairgrounds, and then it was accepted as a great medical breakthrough.

"It's tempting to say that Dennett has never met a robot he didn't like, and that what he likes most about them is that they are philosophical experiments," Harry Blume wrote in the Atlantic Monthly in 1998.

What started out as, in Somoroff's words, a philosophical experiment "to emphasize this particular power and talent that Sanders had" eventually turned into a seven-year project.

The result is a film of wonderful and horrible strangeness: a mashup of love triangle, body horror, and philosophical experiment that yields the sort of final product only Cronenberg could produce.

He is impelled by a philosophical vision that suffuses his literary writings as much as his natural-philosophical experiments in colour theory and optics, botany and evolution.

In a preliminary study of East Asian vs. Western intuitions, Jonathan Weinberg, Shaun Nichols, & Stephen Stich (2001) found that East Asians often have the "wrong intuitions" regarding variations on classic philosophical thought experiments, including Gettier-type thought experiments.

Experimental philosophers have converted standard philosophical thought experiments into survey studies in an effort to see whether untutored intuitions align with those that have been endorsed by professional philosophers.

It is possible, as experimental philosophers appear to have shown regarding intuitions about other prominent philosophical thought experiments, that externalist intuitions are a culturally local product.