Thought experiments, models and scientific explanation /

This book proposes a novel way to view thought experiments, models and scientific explanations. Current literature focuses largely on the assumed differences between the thought experiments and models, and as a result we have lost sight of an important role they can perform in science, such as provi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Karadimas, Panagiotis (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer, [2026]
Series:	European studies in philosophy of science ; v. 14.
Subjects:	Science > Philosophy. Thought experiments. Philosophy. Expériences de pensée. Philosophie. philosophy. Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Thought Experiments and Models: Can we discriminate between them?
Chapter 3. Thought Experiments and Models as Mingled Representations
Chapter 4. Mingled Representations and Real Experiments
Chapter 5. How Mingled Representations Answer Why-Questions
Chapter 6. Ranking Explanations
Chapter 7. Case Study from Physics: Galileo on Falling Bodies
Chapter 8. Case Study from Constitutional Economics: Buchanan on the Emergence of Constitutions
Chapter 9. Epilogue: Explanation and Mingled Representations
Index.