A limited partnership : the politics of religion, welfare, and social service / by Wineburg, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…The Future Ain't What It Used to Be, or Is It?; 7. A Thought Experiment; 8. Being Honest, Being Decent, Being Informed; 9. …”
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Becoming : an anthropological approach to understandings of the person in Java / by Retsikas, Konstantinos

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Deliberation Day / by Ackerman, Bruce A.

Table of Contents: “…Imagine -- The holiday -- From thought-experiments to real experiments -- Cycles of virtue -- Extending the paradigm -- What price deliberation? …”

Deliberation day / by Ackerman, Bruce A., Fishkin, James S.

Table of Contents: “…Imagine -- The holiday -- From thought-experiments to real experiments -- Cycles of virtue -- Extending the paradigm -- What price deliberation? …”
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Philosophical theories of political cinema / by Cioffi, Angelo Emanuele

Table of Contents: “…The 'political' of political cinema -- The purpose of political cinema -- Political cinema and propaganda -- Epistemic values in art -- Epistemic values afforded by political films -- Film as thought experiment -- Imaginative and emotional engagement with political cinema.…”

Passionate reason : making sense of Kierkegaard's Philosophical fragments / by Evans, C. Stephen

Table of Contents: “…On reading Kierkegaard and Johannes Climacus -- An ironical thought experiment -- Constructing an alternative to the Socratic view of "the truth" -- The poetry of the incarnation -- Thought, passion, and paradox -- The echo of offense -- Reason and the paradox -- Belief and the will -- Faith and history -- Christianity in the contemporary world.…”
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Counterfactual thinking, counterfactual writing /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: England Win; First Steps Toward an Explication of Counterfactual Imagination; Thought Experiments and Literature; Counterfactual Explanation in Literature and the Social Sciences; Counterfactual Thinking in Physics; Counterfactuals in the Social Context: The Case of Political Interviews and Their Effects; A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective on Counterfactuality; Significance and Abstraction: Scientific Uses of Counterfactual Thought Experiments in the Early 20th Century; What-If? …”
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Philosophy and the moving image : selected essays / by Carroll, Noël, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Science Fiction, Philosophy, and Politics: Planet of the Apes as a Thought Experiment -- Yvonne Rainer and the Recuperation of Everyday Life -- Amy Schumer or the Incongruities -- Part VI. …”

Empirical knowledge in the eighteenth-century novel : beyond realism / by Hanlon, Aaron R. 1982-

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Descartes' cogito : saved from the great shipwreck / by Sarkar, Husain

Table of Contents: “…The solution: cogito -- The nature of the first principle -- The thought experiment -- The experiment evaluated -- The Eucharist objection -- Doubt and the cogito -- The general rule and truth -- 4. …”
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Science Fiction beyond Borders. by Shawn Ei, Danielle Gurevitch

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Philosophy outside-in : a critique of academic reason / by Norris, Christopher, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Experimental philosophy versus thought experiment -- 4. Outside the box: on the 'extended mind' hypothesis -- 5. …”
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Naming violence : a critical theory of genocide, torture, and terrorism / by Thaler, Mathias

Table of Contents: “…Political theory between moralism and realism -- Telling stories : on art's role in dispelling genocide blindness -- How to do things with hypotheticals : assessing thought experiments about torture -- Genealogy as critique : problematizing definitions of terrorism -- The conceptual tapestry of political violence.…”
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The solidarity solution : principles for a fair income distribution / by Olson, Kristi

Table of Contents: “…The task -- The fair division of resources -- The labor auction thought experiment -- The solidarity solution -- Dworkin's hypothetical underemployment Insurance -- Van Parijs' minimal undominated diversity -- Fleurbaey's egalitarian equivalent allocation -- Fair pay and the gender wage gap -- Freedom and taxation.…”
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Speculative everything : design, fiction, and social dreaming / by Dunne, Anthony, Raby, Fiona

Table of Contents: “…-- A map of unreality -- Design as critique -- Consuming monsters : big, perfect, infectious -- A methodological playground : fictional worlds and thought experiments -- Physical fictions : invitations to make-believe -- Aesthetics of unreality -- Between reality and the impossible -- Speculative everything.…”
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In Search of a New Image of Thought : Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism. by Lambert, Gregg

Table of Contents: “…; 1 The Image of Thought in Proust, or the First Literary Machine (ca. 1964); 2 Notes from a Thought Experiment: What Is a Rhizome? (ca. 1976); 3 The Image of Thought in Kafka, or the Second Literary Machine (ca. 1975); 4 A Minor Question of Literature, or the Bachelor Machine (ca. 1975); 5 A Question of Style in the Philosophy of Difference: "The Bartleby Formula" (ca. 1989); 6 The Image of Thought in Modern Cinema: The Brain Machine (ca. 1985); Conclusion: "We Will Speak of the Brain …”
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Pavlov's dogs and Schrödinger's cat : scenes from the living laboratory / by Harré, Rom

The social logic of space / by Hillier, Bill

Table of Contents: “…The spatial logic of encounters: a computer-aided thought experiment -- 8. Societies as spatial systems -- Postscript.…”
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Creating scientific concepts / by Nersessian, Nancy J.

Table of Contents: “…Creativity in conceptual change: a cognitive-historical approach -- Model-based reasoning practices: historical exemplar -- Model-based reasoning practices: protocol study exemplar -- The cognitive basis of model-based reasoning practices: mental modeling -- Representation and reasoning: analogy, imagery, thought experiment -- Creativity in conceptual change.…”
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Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges / by Thiher, Allen, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : prefatory thoughts on two or more cultures -- What the modernists knew about the history of science from Pascal to Heisenberg -- Robert Musil and the dilemma of modernist epistemology -- Proust, Poincaré, and contingency -- Kafka's search for laws -- James Joyce and the laws of everything -- Modernist thought experiments after Joyce -- Conclusion : science and postmodernity.…”