Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts / edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou, Sophie Roux.

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[2011], ©2011
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2011], ©2011.

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vi, 233 pages ; 25 cm.

Notes

"This book is the distant outcome of a workshop on thought experiments that took place in Athens in April 2007"--Acknowledgements.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : the emergence of the notion of thought experiments / Sophie Roux -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

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  • 9789004201767
  • 9004201769