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Area of Science:

  • Virtual Reality Research
  • Moral Philosophy
  • Experimental Ethics

Background:

  • Virtual reality (VR) offers immersive environments for simulating complex scenarios.
  • Thought experiments, such as Thomson's Bridge variant of the trolley problem, are crucial in moral philosophy.
  • The application of VR to simulate these ethical dilemmas presents unique challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify and analyze the practical and ethical dilemmas in simulating moral thought experiments using virtual reality.
  • To examine the feasibility of creating realistic and ethically sound VR simulations of complex moral scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • Extended case study analysis using Thomson's Bridge variant of the trolley problem.
  • Conceptualization of "perspectival fidelity" and "context realism" as key challenges in VR simulation.
  • Argumentation based on practical impossibility and ethical impermissibility of VR simulations for specific moral dilemmas.

Main Results:

  • VR simulations of moral dilemmas like the Bridge problem face a "practicality horn" due to difficulties in achieving perspectival fidelity and context realism.
  • Such simulations are deemed practically impossible to produce.
  • Even if practically possible, VR simulations of these dilemmas face an "ethical horn," rendering them ethically impermissible.

Conclusions:

  • It is virtually impossible, both practically and ethically, to simulate the Bridge problem and similar thought experiments in virtual reality.
  • The inherent complexities of moral dilemmas pose significant limitations for VR-based research in ethics.
  • Further research must consider these practical and ethical constraints when designing VR experiments for moral philosophy.