Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts /

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? …”
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European cinema and continental philosophy : film as thought experiment / by Elsässer, T.

Table of Contents: “…-- Film as thought: the "film and philosophy" debate -- Film as thought experiment -- "Europe": a thought experiment -- A cinema of abjection? …”

Literary character : the human figure in early English writing / by Fowler, Elizabeth, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Character and the Habituation of the Reader: The Pardoner's Thought Experiment --…”
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The tests of time : readings in the development of physical theory /

Table of Contents: “…A Conceptual analysis of the EPR thought experiment of David Bohm /…”
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Race and photography : racial photography as scientific evidence, 1876-1980 / by Morris-Reich, Amos

Table of Contents: “…Günther in context -- Racial photographs as "thought experiments": the photographic method of Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss -- Racial photography in Palestine.…”
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Byzantium unbound / by Kaldellis, Anthony

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Rise and decline of civilizations : lessons for the Jewish people / by Wald, Salomon

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Cold warriors : manliness on trial in the rhetoric of the West / by Clark, Suzanne

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the frontier rhetoric of the Cold War and the crisis of manliness -- The un-American and the unreal: modern bodies and new frontiers -- Cold War modernism and the crisis of story -- Theodore Roosevelt and the postheroic arena: reading Hemingway again -- Unsettling the West: the persecution of science and Bernard Malamud's A new life -- Mari Sandoz's heartland: the abusive frontier father and the Indian warrior as counterhistory -- The warrior is a stage adolescents go through: Ursula Le Guin's thought experiments -- Conclusion: the whiteness of the Cold War and the absence of women.…”
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Einstein's pathway to the special theory of relativity / by Weinstein, Galina

Table of Contents: “…Part One -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Einstein Believes in the Ether -- 3 The Chasing a Light Beam Thought Experiment -- 4 Magnet and Conductor Thought Experiment -- 4.1 Maxwell's Equations and Induction -- 4.2 What Prompted Einstein to Invent the Magnet and Conductor Thought Experiment? …”
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Postapocalyptic fiction and the social contract : "we'll not go home again" / by Curtis, Claire P., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Last one out, please turn out the lights : On the beach and The road -- "Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" : Hobbes and Lucifer's Hammer, the classic post-apocalyptic text -- "Industrious and rational" : John Locke and Alas, Babylon: the rational life post-apocalypse -- Man is born free; and everywhere is in chains: Rousseau and Malevil: the responsibilities of civil life -- "Maybe effort counted" : John Rawls and thought experiments -- "To take root among the stars" : Octavia Butler's parable of the sower and rethinking the social contract -- "We can choose" : Octavia Butler's parable of the talents and the meaning of security.…”
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Encounters of consequence : Jewish philosophy in the twentieth century and beyond / by Oppenheim, Michael D., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- Death and the fear of death in Franz Rosenzweig's The star of redemption -- The Halevi book -- Into life : Rosenzweig's essays on God, man and the world -- The meaning of Hasidism : Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem -- Autobiography and the becoming of the self : Martin Buber and Joseph Campbell -- Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas : a midrash or thought-experiment -- Welcoming the other : the philosophical foundation for pluralism in the works of Charles Davis and Emmanuel Levinas -- Joseph B. …”
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Pavlov's dogs and Schrödinger's cat : scenes from the living laboratory / by Harré, Rom

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The essential tension : selected studies in scientific tradition and change / by Kuhn, Thomas S.

Table of Contents: “…A Function for Thought Experiments -- 11. Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research -- 12. …”
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Analytic versus continental : arguments on the methods and value of philosophy / by Chase, James, 1969-, Reynolds, Jack, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : analytic versus continental : arguments on the methods and value of philosophy -- Frege and Husserl -- Russell versus Bergson -- Carnap versus Heidegger -- The Frankfurt School, the positivists and Popper -- Royaumont : Ryle and Hare versus French and German philosophy -- Derrida versus Searle and beyond -- Introduction to philosophical method -- Analytic philosophy and the intuition pump : the uses and abuses of thought experiments -- Reflective equilibrium : commone sense or conservatism? …”
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Analytic versus continental : arguments on the methods and value of philosophy / by Chase, James, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : analytic versus continental : arguments on the methods and value of philosophy -- Frege and Husserl -- Russell versus Bergson -- Carnap versus Heidegger -- The Frankfurt School, the positivists and Popper -- Royaumont : Ryle and Hare versus French and German philosophy -- Derrida versus Searle and beyond -- Introduction to philosophical method -- Analytic philosophy and the intuition pump : the uses and abuses of thought experiments -- Reflective equilibrium : commone sense or conservatism? …”
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Contesting environmental imaginaries : nature and counternature in a time of global change /

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Transregional and transnational families in Europe and beyond : experiences since the middle ages /

Table of Contents: “…Johnson -- German international families in the nineteenth century : the Siemens -- Family as a thought experiment / David Warren Sabean -- The culture of Caribbean migration to Britain in the 1950s / Mary -- Chamberlain -- Exile, familial ideology, and gender roles in Palestinian camps in Jordan since 1948 / Stephanie Latte Abdallah -- Mirror image of family relations : social links between patel migrants in Britain and India / Mario Rutten and Pravin J. …”
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Fictions of the cosmos : science and literature in the seventeenth century / by Aït-Touati, Frédérique, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Kepler sets the Earth in motion ; Genealogy of the dream: from ludus philosophicus to the game of fiction ; The dynamics of the voyage: a thought-experiment ; Vision in the voyage ; The place of fiction ; Godwin, Wilkins, Cyrano: from the optical voyage to the mechanical voyage ; The Man in the Moone ; A World in the Moon ; From heavens to the sky: Cyrano's other world ; Conclusions: dreams and fictions -- part 2. …”
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The bright Dark Ages : comparative and connective perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Kuhn, Nisbett, thought experiments, and the Needham question -- 4. Anthropocosmic processes in the anthropocene: revisiting quantum mechanics vs. …”
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Philosophical problems of the internal and external worlds : essays on the philosophy of Adolf Grünbaum /

Table of Contents: “…Seven Theses on Thought Experiments / Paul Humphreys -- 10. On the Alleged Temporal Anisotropy of Explanation: A Letter to Professor Adolf Grunbaum / Wesley C. …”
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