The Routledge companion to thought experiments / edited by Michael T. Stuart, Yiftach Fehige and James Robert Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stuart, Michael T., editor.

Fehige, Yiftach J. H., editor.

Brown, James Robert, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Routledge philosophy companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thought experiments.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 567 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from physics to politics. The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments is an invaluable guide and reference source to this multifaceted subject. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion covers the following important areas: the history of thought experiments, from antiquity to the trolley problem and quantum non-locality; thought experiments in the humanities, arts, and sciences, including ethics, physics, theology, biology, mathematics, economics, and politics; theories about the nature of thought experiments; new discussions concerning the impact of experimental philosophy, cross-cultural comparison studies, metaphilosophy, computer simulations, idealization, dialectics, cognitive science, the artistic nature of thought experiments, and metaphysical issues. This broad ranging Companion goes backwards through history and sideways across disciplines. It also engages with philosophical perspectives from empiricism, rationalism, naturalism, skepticism, pluralism, contextualism, and neo-Kantianism to phenomenology. This volume will be valuable for anyone studying the methods of philosophy or any discipline that employs thought experiments, as well as anyone interested in the power and limits of the mind." -- from the publisher.

Contents:

Thought Experiments : State of the Art / Michael T. Stuart, Yiftach Fehige and James Robert Brown

Part I. Selected History of Thought Experiments. The Triple Life of Ancient Thought Experiments / Katerina Ierodiakonou

Thought Experiments in Plato / Alexander Becker

Aristotle and Thought Experiments / Klaus Corcilius

Experimental Thoughts on Thought Experiments in Medieval Islam / Jon McGinnis

Galileo's Thought Experiments : Projective Participation and the Integration of Paradoxes / Paolo Palmieri

Thought Experiments in Newton and Leibniz / Richard T.W. Arthur

Thought Experiments, Epistemology and Our Cognitive (In)Capacities / Kenneth R. Westphal

Part II. Thought Experiments and their Fields. Thought Experiments in Political Philosophy / Nenad Miščević

Thought Experiments in Economics / Margaret Schabas

Theology and Thought Experiments / Yiftach Fehige

Thought Experiments in Ethics / George Brun

Happiest Thoughts : Great Thought Experiments of Modern Physics / Kent A. Peacock

Thought Experiments in Biology / Guillaume Schlaepfer and Marcel Weber

Thought Experiments in Mathematics / Irina Starikova and Marcus Giaquinto

Part III. Contemporary Philosophical Approaches to Thought Experiments. The Argument View : Are Thought Experiments Mere Picturesque Arguments? / Elke Brendel

Platonism and the A Priori in Thought Experiments / Thomas Grundmann

Cognitive Science, Mental Modeling, and Thought Experiments / Nancy J. Nersessian

Kantian Accounts of Thought Experiments / Marco Buzzoni

Phenomenology and Thought Experiments : Thought Experiments as Anticipation Pumps / Harald A. Wiltsche

Part IV. Issues, Challenges and Interactions. Intuition and Its Critics / Stephen Stich and Kevin Tobia

Thought Experiments and Experimental Philosophy / Kirk Ludwig

Thought Experiments in Current Metaphilosophical Debates / Daniel Cohnitz and Sören Häggqvist

Historicism and Cross-Culture Comparison / James W. McAllister

A Dialectical Account of Thought Experiments / Jean-Yves Goffi and Sophie Roux

The Worst Thought Experiment / John D. Norton

Thought Experiments and Idealizations / Julian Reiss

Thought Experiments and Simulation Experiments : Exploring Hypothetical Worlds / Johannes Lenhard

Images and Imagination in Thought Experiments / Letitia Meynell

Art and Thought Experiments / David Davies

How Thought Experiments Increase Understanding / Michael T. Stuart

On the Identity of Thought Experiments : Thought Experiments Rethought / Alisa Bokulich and Melanie Frappier.

Notes:

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge companion to thought experiments.

ISBN:

9781351705516

1351705512

9781315175027

1315175029

OCLC:

994883108

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