Thinking about the unthinkable in a highly proliferated world / by Murdock, Clark A., Karako, Thomas, Williams, Ian, Dyer, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Middle East Tabletop Exercise Game PlayAnalysis of Tabletop Exercises; Chapter 3: Rules of the Game; How a Highly Proliferated World Might Function; Rules of the Game in a Highly Proliferated World; Chapter 4: Key Deterrence Concepts; Deterrence; Alliances and Extended Deterrence; Strategic Stability; Chapter 5: Implications for the United States; America's Role in a Highly Proliferated World; Policy Credibility and Clarity; Nonproliferation and Counterproliferation; Nuclear Force Strategy and Posture; Chapter 6: Areas for Further Research; Appendix 1: Comparison of Past Thought Experiments…”
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Exceptional people : how migration shaped our world and will define our future / by Goldin, Ian, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Future : The future of migration : The backdrop of globalization ; Supply of migrants ; Demands for migrants -- A global migration agenda : Thought experiments ; A long-term vision of freer movement ; Principles for global migration ; The need for global leadership.…”

Human kindness and the smell of warm croissants : an introduction to ethics / by Ogien, Ruwen

Table of Contents: “…Preface: An antimanual of ethics -- Introduction: What is the use of thought experiments? -- Part I. Problems, dilemmas, and paradoxes: nineteen moral puzzles. -- Emergencies -- The child who is drowning in a pond -- A transplant gone mad -- Confronting a furious crowd -- The killer trolley -- Incest in all innocence -- The amoralist -- The experience machine -- Is a short a mediocre life preferable to no life at all? …”

The philosophy of Steven Soderbergh /

Table of Contents: “…Knowledge, truth, and thought experiments in Schizopolis and Sex, lies, and videotape / David Rodríguez-Ruiz -- Love, truth, and the medium in Sex, lies, and videotape / Yannis Tzioumakis -- Amplified discourse and desire in Sex, lies, and videotape / Murray Pomerance -- Temporality, intertextuality, genre. …”
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The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race / by Isaacson, Walter

Table of Contents: “…Moral questions. Red lines ; Thought experiments ; Who should decide? ; Doudna's ethical journey -- Part eight. …”

Aesthetics and Literature. by Davies, David

Table of Contents: “…'Uptake' theories of interpretationInterpretative pluralism and interpretative monism; 6 The nature of fictional characters; Philosophical problems with fictional characters; 'Meinongian' solutions; 'Russellian' solutions; Alternative strategies; 7 Literature and the emotions; The 'paradox of fiction'; The 'paradox of tragedy' and the 'paradox of horror'; 8 The cognitive value of literature; Literary cognitivism; The epistemological challenge to literary cognitivism; Fictional narratives and thought experiments; 9 Literature, morality, and society; The moral value of literature.…”
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Bitemporal data : theory and practice / by Johnston, Tom

Table of Contents: “…The Allen Relationships; Why the Allen Relationships are Important; A Taxonomy of the Allen Relationships; A Binary Partitioning of the Allen Relationships Taxonomy; An Allen Relationship Thought Experiment; Glossary List; Chapter 8. Temporal Integrity Concepts and Notations; Cubes, Slices and Cells: Data in Three-Dimensional Temporal Space; Semantically Anomalous Relational Tables; Implicit Bitemporal Time.…”
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The AI delusion / by Smith, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Doing without thinking; The fuel and fire of thinking; Superhuman; Singularity; Time; Emotions; Critical thinking; The Turing test; Chinese room thought experiment; Chapter 3. Symbols without context; Translation software; The Winograd Schema Challenge; Can computers read?…”
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Acts of consciousness : a social psychology standpoint / by Saunders, Guy, 1954-

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Legal pragmatics /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The legal sub-language; 2. Thought experiment; 2.1 Revising the text faults.…”
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Policy analysis in Israel /

Table of Contents: “…Lessons from Israel's experience; Thought experiment; Personal knowledge based; Select episodes; Overall assessment; Comparative comment; Barriers; Mission impossible; The ultimate challenge: fuzzy grand-policy gambling; What is to be done?…”
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Philosophers take on the world /

Table of Contents: “…; The question of sexual harm; Conclusion; Notes; TERRORISM, GUNS, AND WAR; 4: A CHALLENGE TO GUN RIGHTS; Note; 5: MCMAHAN'S HAZARDOUS (AND IRRELEVANT) THOUGHT EXPERIMENT; Notes; 6: TRAVEL, FRIENDS, AND KILLING; Notes; 7: THE COURAGEOUS SUICIDE BOMBER?…”
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"A different earth" : Literary space in Mary Shelley's novels / by Rohleder, Rebekka

Table of Contents: “…3.1 "A world already possessed": Naturalising Poverty3.1.1 Spaces of Perfectibility; 3.1.2 Anti-Utopian Islands; 3.2 "The production of men": From Thought Experiment to Fiction; 3.2.1 "The Last Man": Imagining a Depopulated Earth; 3.2.2 The 1831 "Frankenstein" and the Children of the Poor; 3.3 "Remember Utopia!" …”
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Network industries and social welfare : the experiment that reshuffled European utilities / by Florio, Massimo

Table of Contents: “…Welfare effects: A simple thought experiment -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 First sketch of the story -- 3.3 An illustrative model -- 3.4 Privatization -- 3.5 Price regulation -- 3.6 Unbundling -- 3.7 Duopoly -- 3.8 Market entry -- 3.9 Discussion: Objectives, incentives and regulation -- 3.10 Conclusion -- 3.11 Further reading -- Part II: Testing the Paradigm -- 4. …”
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Encyclopedia of research design /

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Using literature in English language education : challenging reading for 8-18 year olds /

Table of Contents: “…Literature in Language Education: Challenges for Theory Building / Werner Delanoy -- Diversity in Love-Themed Fiction: John Green's The Fault in Our Stars and David Levithan's Princes / Johanna Marks and Thorsten Merse -- Popular Culture Head On: Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games / Janice Bland -- Thought Experiments with Science Fiction: Ursula Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / Jurgen Wehrmann -- Environmental Havoc in Teen Fiction: Speculating Futures / Jean Webb -- Hamlet, Ophelia and Teenage Rage: Michael Lesslie's Prince of Denmark / Tzina Kalogirou -- Part III: Embracing the Challenges. …”

Rescher studies : a collection of essays on the philosophical work of Nicholas Rescher /

Table of Contents: “…Preface: ROBERT Almeder; The Limits of Science, Realism, and IdealismRobert Almeder; On Possibilities and Thought ExperimentsDiderik Batens; Coherentism and Coherence Truth in thePhilosophy of Nicholas RescherBryson Brown; Philosophical AnthropologyJames W. …”
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Human kindness and the smell of warm croissants : an introduction to ethics / by Ogien, Ruwen

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents; Preface: An Antimanual of Ethics; Acknowledgments; Introduction: What Is the Use of Thought Experiments?; Part I. Problems, Dilemmas, and Paradoxes: Nineteen Moral Puzzles; 1. …”
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The handbook of community safety, gender and violence prevention : practical planning tools / by Whitzman, Carolyn

Table of Contents: “…Violence in a global city: a thought experiment -- Analysing the problem: causes, impacts, and prevention of violence -- Root causes of violence/ risk and resilience factors -- The costs of violence -- The prevention of violence -- Conclusion: from analysis to action on violence prevention -- Coordinated community safety: from local to global -- Coordination and the question of scales -- Box 6. …”
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The brain and the meaning of life / by Thagard, Paul

Table of Contents: “…-- Evidence, truth, and God -- A priori reasoning and thought experiments -- Minds are brains -- The brain revolution -- Evidence that minds are brains -- Evidence for dualism -- Objections to mind-brain identity -- Who are you? …”
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