Peg Tittle's What If (2005)
Chalmers' philosophical zombie (1997)
Davidson's Swampman (1987)
BonJour's Norman the clairvoyant (1985)
Parfit's teletransporter (1984)
Frank Jackson (1982) Mary's room
Putnam's brain in a vat (1981)
Searle's Chinese room (1980)
Goldman's barn example (1976)
Putnam's Twin Earth (1975)
Nozick's Experience Machine (1974)
Nagel's bat (1974)
Thomson's Famous Violinist Problem (1971)
Foot's Trolley Problem (1967)
the Gettier problem (1963)
the Prisoner's dilemma (1950)
the Turing test (1950)
Schrödinger's cat (1935)
James' squirrel (1904)
the English term thought experiment was coined from Mach’s Gedankenexperiment (1897)
and it first appeared in the English translation of one of Mach’s papers
Edwin Abbott's Flatland (1884)
Maxwell's demon (1867)
Paley's watch (1802)
Kant's antinomies (1781)
Hume's infant deity (1779)
Leibniz' mill (1714)
Leibniz' possible worlds (1710)
Molyneux's Problem (1688)
Newton's rotating bucket argument (1687)
Descartes' evil demon (1641)
Descartes' wax (1641)
Gaunilo's lost island (1078)
the Ship of Theseus (ca 100)
Lucretius' spear (1st century bc)
Aristotle's argument for a spherical Earth (ca 330 bc)
was proven by Eratosthenes' measurement of its circumference in 240 bc
Aristotle's Sea Battle (ca 330 bc)
Plato's ring of Gyges (370 bc)
Plato's Allegory of the Cave (370 bc)
Zeno's paradoxes (450 bc)