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  title info:
    title: Thought experiments in science and philosophy
  name:
    name part: Horowitz, Tamara.
  name:
    name part: Massey, Gerald J.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: conference publication
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 1991
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: Thought experimentation in presocratic philosophy / Nicholas Rescher -- Mediaeval thought-experiments : the metamethodology of mediaeval science / Peter King -- Descartes, conceivability, and logical modality / Lilli Alanen -- Thought experiments and conceivability conditions / D.A. Anapolitanos -- Do all rational folk reason as we do? : Frege's thought experiment reconsidered / Barbara D. Massey -- Can thought experiments fail? / Allen I. Janis -- Thought experiments : a platonic account / James Robert Brown -- Thought experiments in Einstein's work / John Norton -- On the nature of thought experiments in scientific reasoning / Andrew D. Irvine -- Thought experiments of Steven Mach and Gouy : thought experiments as ideal limits and as semantic domains / Ronald Laymon.
  table of contents: Reflections on strings / Mark Wilson -- Thought experiments in the philosophy of physical science / John Forge -- Darwinian thought experiments : a function for just-so-stories / James G. Lennox -- Thought experiments in linguistics / Sarah G. Thomason -- Method of imaginative variation in phenomenology / J.N. Mohanty -- The tradition of thought experiments in epistemology / Rolf George -- Backdoor analyicity / Gerald Massey -- On some pernicious thought-experiments / Richard M. Gale -- Newcomb's problem as a thought experiment / Tamara Horowitz -- Conceivability and modal knowledge / Stephen Cade Hetherington -- The ballad of Clyde the moose / Joseph L. Camp, Jr.
  note: edited by Tamara Horowitz and Gerald J. Massey.
  note: "This volume originated in a conference ... held at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, April 18-20, 1986"--Pref.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Thought and thinking
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
    genre: Congresses
  classification: B105.T54 T56 1991
  classification: 101
  related item:
    title info:
      title: CPS publications in philosophy of science
  identifier: 0847677060 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 91030795
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 910726
    record change date: 20151005080957.0
    record identifier: in00001323136