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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Constellations of a contemporary romanticism /

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Who are universities for? : Re-making higher education / by Sperlinger, Tom, McLellan, Josie, Pettigrew, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Education and the shape of a life; The current system: a thought experiment; Education and 'a good life'; Vocational study; Small is beautiful; 5. …”
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Cognitive science in education and alternative teaching strategies /

Table of Contents: “…-- Reading Classical Linear Texts -- Online Informational, Interpretive and Displayable Texts -- Individual Differences in the Process of Learning from E-textbook/E-material -- Reflexion for the Teacher -- Critical Thinking with Thought Experiments -- Tools of Critical Thinking in Education: Thought Experiments in Teaching/Learning Ethics -- Innovative Teaching and the 21st Century Competences -- Collecting of Examples of Promising Practice -- Teacher Training in the Light of the 21st Century Competences -- Resource and Project Management -- The PISA 2012 Study: Comparisons of Student Achievements between Paper-based and Computer-based Assessments -- The Use of ICT in Learning Foreign Languages -- the Results of the European Survey on Language Competences (ESLC) -- Evaluation of the Slovenian Project "Innovative Pedagogy 1: 1 in the Light of the 21st Century Competences" -- Innovative Pedagogy for Future Teachers -- Summary of Theoretical Background -- How to Teach -- Critical Thinking -- ONLINE Reading/Learning Competence -- From Theory to Practice -- Some Conclusions and Recommendations.…”
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Sovereignty, the WTO and changing fundamentals of international law / by Jackson, John H. 1932-2015

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: International law and international economic law in the interdependent world of the twenty-first century -- The real world impinges on international law: exploring the challenges to the fundamental assumptions of international law and institutions -- Sovereignty modern: a new approach to an outdated concept -- The WTO as international organization: institutional evolution, structure and key problems -- The WTO dispute settlement system -- Policy, analytical approaches and thought experiments -- Illustrative applications -- Perspectives, implications, and some conclusions.…”
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Sovereignty, the WTO and changing fundamentals of international law / by Jackson, John H. 1932-2015

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: International law and international economic law in the interdependent world of the twenty-first century -- The real world impinges on international law: exploring the challenges to the fundamental assumptions of international law and institutions -- Sovereignty modern: a new approach to an outdated concept -- The WTO as international organization: institutional evolution, structure and key problems -- The WTO dispute settlement system -- Policy, analytical approaches and thought experiments -- Illustrative applications -- Perspectives, implications, and some conclusions.…”
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Controversies and the metaphysics of mind / by Senderowicz, Yaron M.

Table of Contents: “…Outline of a theory of metaphysical controversies; The Kantian framework; The idea of controversy and metaphysics; Intuitions, thought experiments, and controversies; Part Two. The knowledge argument; The polemical character of the knowledge arguments; The antinomies of consciousness and their resolutions; A priori knowledge and the explanatory gap; Part Three. …”
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Philosophy Outside-In : a Critique of Academic Reason. by Norris, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Experimental Philosophy versus Thought Experiment; 4 Outside the Box: On the 'Extended Mind' Hypothesis; 5 Inaesthetics and Transitory Ontology: The Case of Political Song; 6 Speculative Realism: An Interim Report; 7 Provoking Philosophy: Shakespeare, Johnson, Wittgenstein, Derrida; Index.…”
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Transcendence and the concrete : selected writings / by Wahl, Jean André, 1888-1974

Table of Contents: “…Existence, experience, and transcendence : an introduction to Jean Wahl -- Preface to Toward the concrete -- Commentary on a passage from Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit -- Hegel and Kierkegaard -- Heidegger and Kierkegaard : an investigation into the original elements of Heidegger's philosophy -- The problem of choice : existence and transcendence in Jaspers's philosophy -- Subjectivity and transcendence -- Appendix : Jean Wahl's letter to Martin Heidegger, December 12, 1937 -- Nietzsche and the death of God : a note on Jaspers's Nietzsche -- Poetry and metaphysics -- Order and disorder in Nietzsche's thought -- Experience and transcendence; or, an ontological journey.…”
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Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy / by Widerquist, Karl, McCall, Grant S.

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The Little Big Number : How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do about It / by Philipsen, Dirk

Table of Contents: “…From Alchemy to Reason: What If? A Thought Experiment; Mental Cobwebs; One More Time: Simon Kuznets…”
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If You're So Ethical, Why Are You So Highly Paid? : Ethics, Inequality and Executive Pay / by Pepper, Alexander

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The concept of constituency : political representation, democratic legitimacy, and institutional design / by Rehfeld, Andrew, 1965-

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Transnationalism and Resistance : Experience and Experiment in Women's Writing. by Parker, Adele

Table of Contents: “…Trauma, Resistance, Nation; Assia Djebar's Seductive Trails in So Vastthe Prison: ""A Philosopher's Thought Experiment""?…”
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Understanding ethics / by Tännsjö, Torbjörn, 1946-

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What if medicine disappeared? / by Markle, Gerald E., 1942-

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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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Forbidden fruit : counterfactuals and international relations / by Lebow, Richard Ned

Table of Contents: “…Making sense of the world -- Counterfactual thought experiments -- Franz Ferdinand found alive: World War I unnecessary -- Leadership and the end of the Cold War: did it have to end this way? …”
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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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