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Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts /
"This book is the distant outcome of a workshop on thought experiments that took place in Athens in April 2007"--Acknowledgements.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
©2011.
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| Colección: | History of science and medicine library ;
v. 19. History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; v. 15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.