Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill
cop. 2011
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| Series: | History of science and medicine library,
19 Medieval and early modern science, 15 |
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991009743809708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the emergence of the notion of thought experiments / Sophie Roux
- Remarks on the history of an ancient thought experiment / Katerina Ierodiakonou
- Thought experiments in the De anima commentaries / Peter Lautner
- Thought experiments in late medieval debates on atomism / Christophe Grellard
- Thought experiments and indirect proofs in Averroes, Aquinas, and Buridan / Simo Knuuttila and Taneli Kukkonen
- Galileo's use of medieval thought experiments / Carla Rita Palmerino
- On Kant's critique of thought experiments in early modern philosophy / Stelios Virvidakis
- Philosophical thought experiments : in or out of the armchair? / Pascal Engel
- On the very idea of a thought experiment / Jean-Yves Goffi and Sophie Roux
- Thought experiments and mental simulations / John Zeimbekis.
