Seeing the world more clearly: strategies for unleashing the full moral potential of thought experiments in the philosophy classroom.

Autor/in	Balg, Dominik
Titel	Seeing the world more clearly: strategies for unleashing the full moral potential of thought experiments in the philosophy classroom.
Quelle	In: Journal of didactics of philosophy, (2022) 6, 17 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2624-540X
DOI	10.46586/JDPh.2022.9680
Schlagwörter	Fallmethode; Hermeneutik; Intuition; Experiment; Lehren; Fachdidaktik; Philosophie; Gedanke
Abstract	In this paper, I discuss the effects of using thought experiments for the purpose of conceptual clarification of students' hermeneutical abilities. On the one hand, by providing opportunities to explore the scope of normatively loaded concepts, thought experiments can effectively help students to interpret their social and moral reality more adequately, which in some cases might even help to reduce existing hermeneutical injustices. On the other hand, given their notorious susceptibility to distorting factors that are philosophically irrelevant, they can also push students into accepting idiosyncratic intuitions that they don't really share and thereby further impair their hermeneutical abilities. After setting out this dilemma in more detail, I will propose various strategies for facilitating the safe use of thought experiments that instructors can use to effectively exploit the empowering potential of thought experiments.
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main (extern)
Update	2024/1