Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts
Title Statements
- Full title :Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts / ed. by Katerina Ierodiakonou [und weitere].
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Brill
- Place of Publication:Leiden
- Language:lat
- Publication Date:2011.
Notes
"This book is the distant outcome of a workshop on thought experiments that took place in Athens in April 2007"--Acknowledgements.
The Physical Object
- Description:233 Seiten.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789004201767, 9004201769
- oclc:ocn744515145
- LC Classification:BD265
- Dewey Decimal:190
Table of 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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