Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts

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    • Ierodiakonou, Katerina
    • Roux, Sophie

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Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts

edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou, Sophie Roux

（History of science and medicine library, v. 19）（Medieval and early modern science, v. 15）

Brill, 2011

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Bibliography: p. [217]-228

Includes index

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During the last decades of the twentieth century highly imaginative thought experiments were introduced in philosophy: Searle's Chinese room, variations on the Brain-in-a-vat, Thomson's violinist. At the same time historians of philosophy and science claimed the title of thought experiment for almost any argument: Descartes' evil genius, Buridan's ass, Gyges' ring. In the early 1990s a systematic debate began concerning the epistemological status of thought experiments. The essays in this volume are an outcome of this debate. They were guided by the idea that, since we cannot forge a strict definition of thought experiments, we should at least tame the contemporary wild usage of this notion by analysing thought experiments from various periods, and thus clarify how they work, what their limits are, and what their conceptualisation could be. Medieval and Early Modern Science, 15

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Acknowledgments Introduction: The Emergence of the Notion of Thought Experiments, Sophie Roux PART ONE: HISTORICAL USES OF THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS Remarks on the History of an Ancient Thought Experiment, Katerina Ierodiakonou Thought Experiments in the De Anima Commentaries, Peter Lautner Thought Experiments in Late Medieval Debates on Atomism, Christophe Grellard PART TWO: THE POSSIBILITY OF THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS Thought Experiments and Indirect Proofs in Averroes, Aquinas, and Buridan, Simo Knuuttila and Taneli Kukkonen Galileo's Use of Medieval Thought Experiments, Carla Rita Palmerino On Kant's Critique of Thought Experiments in Early Modern Philosophy, Stelios Virvidakis PART THREE: HOW DO THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS WORK? Philosophical Thought Experiments: In or Out of the Armchair?, Pascal Engel On the Very Idea of a Thought Experiment, Jean-Yves Goffi and Sophie Roux Thought Experiments and Mental Simulations, John Zeimbekis Bibliography List of Contributors Index nominum

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