Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts

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

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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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

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Description:1 online resource (vi, 233 pages)

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ISBN:9789004201774, 9004201777, 1283161370, 9781283161374
oclc:ocn747837422
LC Classification:BD265
Dewey Decimal:190

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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Conference papers and proceedings Expériences de pensée -- Congrès. -- Hi… Geschichte History PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys Thought experiments Thought experiments -- Congresses. -- H…