Thought experiments in science and philosophy /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Horowitz, Tamara, Massey, Gerald J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Savage, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [1991]
Series:	CPS publications in philosophy of science.
Subjects:	Thought and thinking > Congresses. Philosophy and science > Congresses.

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.
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.