ethical thought experiments seem to pique everyone's interests. but are they actually helpful for ethical decision-making? how do we expand our range of possible choices in a given situation. i consider the power and limits of moral imagination.
this video was so disorganized, i'm sorry... but hey, screw systematic structure, we're talking about particularism today!

**CORRECTION: by Tim Chappell, i mean Sophie Grace Chappell. my brain did a weird mixing of tim in tim-the-terrorist and chappell lol.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 intro
00:19 the baby problem (thanks sisyphus 55)
00:48 applied ethics vs. metaethics
4:19 baking brookies for you
5:45 systematic/scientific ethics
8:52 what's wrong with systematic ethics?
9:51 oppy's atomic bomb dilemma
16:00 the importance of imagining the impossible
18:07 why our imagination can be crap
25:45 "tim the terrorist" (thanks sisyphus 55 & BABILA.)
30:36 improving moral imagination
34:51 outro

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SOURCES:
Arpaly, Nomy. (2020). “What Is It Like to Have a Crappy Imagination?”
Chappell, Sophie Grace. (2014). Knowing What To Do: Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics.
Kind, Amy. (2020) “What Imagination Teaches.”
Nussbaum, Martha. (1986). “The Discernment of Perception: An Aristotelian Conception
of Private and Public Rationality.”
Rivage-Seul, Marguerite. (1987). "Peace Education: Imagination and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed."
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (2023). "Transformative Experience."

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