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Wittgenstein's beetle and other classic thought experiments /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…A is for Alice and astronomers arguing about acceleration -- B is for Bernard's body-exchange machine -- C is for the Catholic cannibal -- D is for Maxwell's demon -- E is for evolution (and an embarrassing problem with it) -- F is for the forms lost forever to the prisoners of the cave -- G is for Galileo's gravitational balls -- H is for Hume's shades -- I is for the identity of indiscernibles -- J is for Henri Poincaré and alternative geometries -- K is for the Kritik and Kant's kind of thought experiments -- L is for Lucretius' spear -- M is for Mach's motionless chain -- N is for Newton's bucket -- O is for Olbers' paradox -- P is for Parfit's person -- Q is for the questions raised by thought experiments quotidiennes -- R is for the rule-ruled room -- S is for Salvatius' ship, sailing along its own space-time line -- T is for the time-travelling twins -- U is for the universe, and Einstein's attempts to understand it -- V is for the vexed case of the violinist -- W is for Wittgenstein's beetle -- X is for xenophanes and thinking by examples -- Y is for counterfactuals and a backwards approach to history -- Z is for Zeno and the mysteries of infinity.…”
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The Routledge companion to thought experiments /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…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. …”
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Wittgenstein's beetle and other classic thought experiments /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…A is for Alice and astronomers arguing about acceleration -- B is for Bernard's body-exchange machine -- C is for the Catholic cannibal -- D is for Maxwell's demon -- E is for evolution (and an embarrassing problem with it) -- F is for the forms lost forever to the prisoners of the cave -- G is for Galileo's gravitational balls -- H is for Hume's shades -- I is for the identity of indiscernibles -- J is for Henri Poincaré and alternative geometries -- K is for the Kritik and Kant's kind of thought experiments -- L is for Lucretius' spear -- M is for Mach's motionless chain -- N is for Newton's bucket -- O is for Olbers' paradox -- P is for Parfit's person -- Q is for the questions raised by thought experiments quotidiennes -- R is for the rule-ruled room -- S is for Salvatius' ship, sailing along its own space-time line -- T is for the time-travelling twins -- U is for the universe, and Einstein's attempts to understand it -- V is for the vexed case of the violinist -- W is for Wittgenstein's beetle -- X is for xenophanes and thinking by examples -- Y is for counterfactuals and a backwards approach to history -- Z is for Zeno and the mysteries of infinity.…”
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What if ... : collected thought experiments in philosophy /
Published 2016Subjects: “…Thought experiments.…”
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Arts-based thought experiments for a posthuman Earth : a Touchstones companion /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Irwin -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Prologue: Fold, Unfolding, Enfolding: Socioecological Learning through Arts-Based Thought Experiments -- Alexandra Lasczik and Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles -- 1 Who Can Speak for the Earth? …”
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Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts /
Published 2011Table 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 /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…-- Film as thought: the "film and philosophy" debate -- Film as thought experiment -- "Europe": a thought experiment -- A cinema of abjection? …”
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Counterfactual thought experiments in world politics : logical, methodological, and psychological perspectives /
Published 1996Table of Contents: “…Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics: Logical, Methodological, and Psychological Perspectives / Philip E. …”
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The two but rule : the negative thinking into positive solutions /
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The two but rule : turning negative thinking into positive solutions /
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Life without end : a thought experiment in literature from Swift to Houellebecq /
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Life without end : a thought experiment in literature from Swift to Houellebecq /
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