Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts / edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou, Sophie Roux.
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TextSeries: History of science and medicine library ; v. 19. | History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; ; v. 15.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 233 pages)Content type: - text
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index.
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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"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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