The Cabinet

Please touch the philosophy.

Thirty-six of philosophy’s thought experiments, as things you can pick up and play with. Some take thirty seconds. Each has its own page, so when one fits something a friend is going through, send it to them.

“Philosophy begins in wonder.”
Plato, Theaetetus

Things to think withc.500 BC to now

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Every object, with what it’s good for. Copy a link to send one on.

  1. 1 Heraclitus’ river
  2. 2 Lao Tzu’s pot
  3. 3 The ring of Gyges
  4. 4 Plato’s cave
  5. 5 Zhuangzi’s butterfly
  6. 6 The ship of Theseus
  7. 7 Ockham’s razor
  8. 8 Buridan’s ass
  9. 9 Hume’s bundle
  10. 10 Kant’s dove
  11. 11 Schopenhauer’s porcupines
  12. 12 Maxwell’s demon
  13. 13 Nietzsche’s hourglass
  14. 14 Nietzsche’s camel, lion and child
  15. 15 Nietzsche’s hammer
  16. 16 Bergson’s sugar
  17. 17 Russell’s chicken
  18. 18 Camus’s boulder
  19. 19 Sartre’s waiter
  20. 20 The prisoner’s dilemma
  21. 21 Wittgenstein’s beetle
  22. 22 Girard’s nursery
  23. 23 The stopped clock
  24. 24 The trolley
  25. 25 The veil of ignorance
  26. 26 The drowning child
  27. 27 Omelas
  28. 28 The last man
  29. 29 The experience machine
  30. 30 What is it like to be a bat?
  31. 31 Fromm’s flower
  32. 32 Moral luck
  33. 33 The Chinese room
  34. 34 Mary’s room
  35. 35 Frankfurt’s bullshit
  36. 36 McGilchrist’s bird

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