Thought experiments are often made more memorable by associating them with objects.

• 🫖 Russel’s teapot
• 🪒 Occam’s razor
• 🙈 Rawls' veil of ignorance, see Rational ethics (philosophy)
• ⛰️ Plato's cave
• 🚧 Chesterton's fence, see Chesterton's fence - understand before reforming
• 💡 Moore's transistor
• 😈 Maxwell's demon
• 🐈 Schrödinger's cat
• 🚢 The Ship of Theseus
• 🐉 Hobbes' Leviathan
• 🪲 Wittgenstein's beetle
• 🪴🪚 Gopnik’s gardener and carpenter, see The Gardener and The Carpenter by Alison Gopnik
• 🔒 Weber's Iron Cage, see The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
• 🕴️ Avicenna's floating man
• 🤖 Nozick’s experience machine, see Nozick’s experience machine and even more powerfully, in reverse
• 🛋️ Clarence Irving Lewis's (Mary's) room.
• 🙈🐘 Parable of blind men and an elephant
• 🌊🌊 Two Watersheds - too much institutionalization
• 🚎 Philipa Foot’s Trolley Problem