The Purpose of Thought Experiments
- Moral thought experiments serve to perturb the initial conditions of a moral situation until one's intuitions vary.
- This can be philosophically useful insofar as we may be able to analyze which salient feature of the dilemma caused that variance.
- Thought experiments are evidence that either corroborates or falsifies a certain hypothesis. They are not the hypothesis itself.
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