Frappier, Melanie (Editor)
Brown, James Robert (Editor)
Meynell, Letitia Mercia (Editor)
Routledge
Publication date: 2012
Language: English
Physical Details: 284 pages
From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the empirical sciences. Are these experiments, conducted uniquely in our imagination, simply rhetorical devices or communication tools or are they an essential part of scientific practice? This volume surveys the current state of the debate and explores new avenues of research into the epistemology of thought experiments.
...MoreReview Darrell P. Rowbottom (2015) Review of "Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts". HOPOS (pp. 348-352).
Chapter Geordie McComb (2012) Thought Experiment, Definition, and Literary Fiction. In: Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (pp. 207-222).
Chapter James W. McAllister (2012) Thought Experiment and the Exercise of Imagination in Science. In: Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (pp. 11-29).
Chapter Julian Reiss (2012) Genealogical Thought Experiments in Economics. In: Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (pp. 177-190).
Chapter Nenad Miščević (2012) Political Thought Experiments from Plato to Rawls. In: Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (pp. 191-206).
Chapter W. Ford Doolittle (2012) Craig Venter’s New Life: the Realization of Some Thought Experiments in Biological Ontology. In: Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (pp. 160-176).
Chapter David Davies (2012) Can Philosophical Thought Experiments Be ‘Screened’?. In: Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (pp. 223-238).
Chapter Mark Shumelda (2012) At the Limits of Possibility: Thought Experiments in Quantum. In: Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (pp. 141-159).
Chapter Roy Sorensen (2012) Veridical Idealizations. In: Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (pp. 30-52).
Chapter Marco Buzzoni (2012) Thought Experiments from a Kantian Point of View. In: Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (pp. 90-106).
Chapter Richard T. W. Arthur (2012) Can Thought Experiments Be Resolved by Experiment? The Case of Aristotle’s Wheel. In: Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (pp. 107-122).
Chapter Yiftach Fehige; Harald Wiltsche (2012) The Body, Thought Experiments, and Phenomenology. In: Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (pp. 69-89).
Chapter James Robert Brown (2012) What Do We See in a Thought Experiment?. In: Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (pp. 53-68).
Chapter Vrishali Subramanian; Sanjay Chandrasekharan; Nancy J. Nersessian (2012) Computational Modeling: Is This the End of Thought Experiments in Science?. In: Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (pp. 239-260).
Chapter John D. Norton (2012) Chasing the Light: Einstein’s Most Famous Thought Experiment. In: Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts (pp. 123-140).
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