The Routledge companion to thought experiments
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The Routledge companion to thought experiments
（Routledge companions to philosophy）
Routledge, 2018
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Thought experiments
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Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from physics to politics. The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments is an invaluable guide and reference source to this multifaceted subject. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion covers the following important areas:
* the history of thought experiments, from antiquity to the trolley problem and quantum non-locality;
* thought experiments in the humanities, arts, and sciences, including ethics, physics, theology, biology, mathematics, economics, and politics;
* theories about the nature of thought experiments;
* new discussions concerning the impact of experimental philosophy, cross-cultural comparison studies, metaphilosophy, computer simulations, idealization, dialectics, cognitive science, the artistic nature of thought experiments, and metaphysical issues.
This broad ranging Companion goes backwards through history and sideways across disciplines. It also engages with philosophical perspectives from empiricism, rationalism, naturalism, skepticism, pluralism, contextualism, and neo-Kantianism to phenomenology. This volume will be valuable for anyone studying the methods of philosophy or any discipline that employs thought experiments, as well as anyone interested in the power and limits of the mind.
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Contents
Thought Experiments: State of the Art - Michael T. Stuart, Yiftach Fehige and James Robert Brown
Part One: Selected History of Thought Experiments
The Triple Life of Ancient Thought Experiments - Katerina Ierodiakonou
Thought Experiments in Plato - Alexander Becker
Aristotle and Thought Experiments - Klaus Corcilius
Experimental Thoughts on Thought Experiments in Medieval Islam - Jon McGinnis
Galileo's Thought Experiments: Projective Participation and the Integration of Paradoxes - Paolo Palmieri
Thought Experiments in Newton and Leibniz - Richard T. W. Arthur
Kant, Hegel and Wittgenstein: Thought Experiments, Epistemology and Our Cognitive (In)Capacities - Kenneth R. Westphal
Part Two: Thought Experiments and their Fields
Thought Experiments in Political Philosophy - Nenad Miscevic
Thought Experiments in Economics - Margaret Schabas
Theology and Thought Experiments - Yiftach Fehige
Thought Experiments in Ethics - George Brun
Happiest Thoughts: Great Thought Experiments of Modern Physics - Kent A. Peacock
Thought Experiments in Biology - Guillaume Schlaepfer and Marcel Weber
Thought Experiments in Mathematics - Irina Starikova and Marcus Giaquinto
Part Three: Contemporary Philosophical Approaches to Thought Experiments
The Argument View: Are Thought Experiments Mere Picturesque Arguments? - Elke Brendel
Platonism and the A Priori in Thought Experiments - Thomas Grundmann
Cognitive Science, Mental Modeling, and Thought Experiments - Nancy J. Nersessian
Kantian Accounts of Thought Experiments - Marco Buzzoni
Phenomenology and Thought Experiments: Thought Experiments as Anticipation Pumps - Harald A. Wiltsche
Part Four: Issues, Challenges and Interactions
Intuition and Its Critics - Stephen Stich and Kevin Tobia
Thought Experiments and Experimental Philosophy - Kirk Ludwig
Thought Experiments in Current Metaphilosophical Debates - Daniel Cohnitz and Soeren Haggqvist
Historicism and Cross-Culture Comparison - James W. McAllister
A Dialectical Account of Thought Experiments - Jean-Yves Goffi and Sophie Roux
The Worst Thought Experiment - John D. Norton
Thought Experiments and Idealizations - Julian Reiss
Thought Experiments and Simulation Experiments: Exploring Hypothetical Worlds - Johannes Lenhard
Images and Imagination in Thought Experiments - Letitia Meynell
Art and Thought Experiments - David Davies
How Thought Experiments Increase Understanding - Michael T. Stuart
On the Identity of Thought Experiments: Thought Experiments Rethought - Alisa Bokulich and Melanie Frappier
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