Episode

Edouard Machery on Variations in Responses to Thought Experiments

Podcast
Philosophy Bites
Published
Nov 2, 2025
Duration seconds
1296
Processing state
not_requested
Canonical source
https://philosophybites.libsyn.com/edouard-machery-on-variations-in-responses-to-thought-experiments
Audio
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/philosophybites/Edouard_Machery.mp3?dest-id=14010
JSON
/v1/public/podcasts/philosophy-bites-894386/episodes/edouard-machery-on-variations-in-responses-to-thought-experiments
Markdown
/podcast/philosophy-bites-894386/edouard-machery-on-variations-in-responses-to-thought-experiments.md

Actions

  • POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/philosophy-bites-894386/episodes/edouard-machery-on-variations-in-responses-to-thought-experiments/transcription-requests
    Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
  • GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/philosophy-bites-894386/edouard-machery-on-variations-in-responses-to-thought-experiments.md
    Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

Summary

Philosophers who use thought experiments often believe their own intutions in response to them are unviersal. But that's not always so. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Edouard Machery discusses his research on this topic, and some of his surprising conclusions. This episode was made in association with the Institute of Philosophy and supported by the Ideas Workshop which is part of the Open Society Foundations