The material of poetry : sketches for a philosophical poetics / by Bruns, Gerald L.

Table of Contents: “…Poetic materialism: the poet's redemption of everyday things -- On poems of the third kind (a thought experiment).…”

How to create a mind : the secret of human thought revealed / by Kurzweil, Ray

Table of Contents: “…Thought experiments on the world -- Thought experiments on thinking -- A model for the neocortex : the pattern recognition theory of mind -- The biological neocortex -- The old brain -- Transcendent abilities -- The biologically inspired digital neocortex -- The mind as computer -- Thought experiments on the mind -- The law of accelerating returns applied to the brain -- Objections.…”

The demons of science : what they can and cannot tell us about our world / by Weinert, Friedel

Table of Contents: “…I. Thought Experiments: Thought Experiments in Ancient Greece -- What Thought Experiments Represent -- Models and Thought Experiments -- The Function of Thought Experiments -- What Thought Experiments Tell Us and Don't Tell Us About the World -- Enter the Demons -- II. …”
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Infinite learning diversity : uncovering the hidden talents of our students / by McCaffrey, Tony

Table of Contents: “…Problem : few categories and missing neuroscience -- A mammal thought experiment -- More non-linguistic experiences with blending -- The neuroscience behind blending -- Languages relation to other cognitive abilities -- Transforming language to neural activity -- Students baselines for mental simulations -- Gestalt principles revitalized -- From non-linguistic to linguistic puzzles -- More impressive spatialists -- Linguistic math puzzles.…”

Mary Shelley and the rights of the child : political philosophy in Frankenstein / by Botting, Eileen Hunt, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Preface : welcome to the Creature double feature -- Introduction : Frankenstein and the question of children's rights -- The specter of the stateless orphan from Hobbes to Shelley -- Wollstonecraft's philosophy of children's rights -- Shelley's thought experiments on the rights of the child -- Three applications of Shelley's thought experiments : the rights of the disabled, stateless, and posthuman children.…”

The money problem : rethinking financial regulation / by Ricks, Morgan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Instability -- Taking the money market seriously -- Money creation and market failure -- Banking in theory and reality -- Panics and the macroeconomy -- Design alternatives -- A monetary thought experiment -- The limits of risk constraints -- Public support and subsidized finance -- The public-private partnership -- Money and sovereignty -- A more detailed blueprint -- Rethinking financial reform.…”

Songs of the Royal Zhōu and the Royal Shào : Shī 詩 of the Ānhuī University Manuscripts /

Songs of the Royal Zhōu and the Royal Shào : Shī 詩 of the Ānhuī University Manuscripts /

by Meyer, Dirk, Schwartz, Adam Craig

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Fortunes of feminism : from state-managed capitalism to neoliberal crisis / by Fraser, Nancy

Table of Contents: “…: the case of Habermas and gender -- Struggle over needs : outline of a socialist-feminist critical theory of late- -- Capitalist political culture -- A genealogy of "dependency" : tracing a keyword of the US welfare state (coauthored with Linda Gordon) -- After the family wage : a postindustrial thought experiment -- Feminism tamed : from redistribution to recognition in the age of -- Identity -- Against symbolicism : the uses and abuses of Lacanianism for feminist politics -- Feminist politics in the age of recognition : a two-dimensional approach to gender justice -- Heterosexism, misrecognition, and capitalism : a response to Judith Butler -- Feminism resurgent? …”

A video series to introduce giving voice to values.

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Intuition, imagination, and philosophical methodology / by Gendler, Tamar

Table of Contents: “…1. Thought experiments, intuitions, and philosophical methodology -- 2. …”
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Funny how? : sketch comedy and the art of humor / by Clayton, Alex, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…The trouble with comic theory -- Take offs -- Thought experiments -- Prime numbers -- Pitched battles -- Conclusion: the rhetoric of humor.…”
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The introspective art of Mark Twain / by Anderson, Douglas, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Thought Experiments -- 1. Inside Excursions -- 2. Interest -- 3. …”

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. …”

Ethical issues for a new millennium /

Table of Contents: “…Singer -- After the family wage: a postindustrial thought experiment / Nancy Fraser -- Genetic Equality? Gender, class, and ability differences / Mary B. …”
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Scientific Knowledge and Philosophic Thought / by Himsworth, Harold, 1905-1993

Table of Contents: “…Methods of Thought -- Experience and Understanding -- Observations and Hypotheses -- The Particular and the General -- Possibility and Certainty -- Imagination and Credibility -- Inference, Induction, and Intuition -- Properties and Values -- Science and Philosophy…”
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The ontology of psychology : questioning foundations in the philosophy of mind / by Brakel, Linda A. W.

Table of Contents: “…Extinction phenomena : a biologic perspective on how and why psychoanalysis works -- The ontology of psychology -- The uses and abuses of consistency in thought experiments, empirical research, experimental philosophy, and psychoanalysis.…”

Wittgenstein's Tractatus : an introduction / by Nordmann, Alfred, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…The argument -- 3. Thought experiments -- 4. Tense and mood -- 5. The senses of sense -- Conclusion : a sense of familiarity.…”
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Observation and experiment in the natural and social sciences /

Table of Contents: “…: A heuristics of discovery in the cognitive sciences / Gerd Gigerenzer -- Comments on Gerd Gigerenzer / David Papineau -- On the concept of discovery: comments on Gerd Gigerenzer / Jeanne Peijnenburg -- Styles of experimentation / Ursula Klein -- On French concepts and objects: comments on Ursula Klein / Aristides Baltas -- Some comments on "styles of experimentation" by Ursula Klein / Donald Gillies -- Improving "styles of experimentation": a comment on Ursula Klein / Gu̿rol Irzik -- Experiments and thought experiments in natural science / David Atkinson -- The advantage of theft over honest toil: comments on David Atkinson / Daniel Andler -- Thinking about thought experiments in physics: comment on "experiments and thought experiments in natural science" / Miklós Rédei -- The dynamics of thought experiments: a comment on David Atkinson / Michael Sto̿ltzner -- An attempt at a philosophy of experiment / Giora Hon -- An attempt at a philosophy of experimental error: a comment on Giora Hon / Raffaella Campaner -- O happy error: a comment on Giora Hon / Gereon Wolters -- Bayesian evidence / Colin Howson -- On Baysian logic: comment on Colin Howson / Igor Douven -- On Bayesian induction (and Pythagoric arithmetic) / Paolo Garbolino -- Probability and logic: comments on Colin Howson / Ilkka Niiniluoto.…”
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Unspeakable cults : an essay in Christology / by DeHart, Paul J., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Ernst Troeltsch and the cult of neo-Protestantism -- The weight of historical consciousness and the disintegration of Christology -- Return of the sorcerer: the comparative Jesus (a thought-experiment) -- II The cult of Jesus: historical matter and pneumatic form. …”
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Theory of Heat / by Maxwell, James Clerk

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