Thought Experiments in Methodological and Historical Contexts

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Thought experiments being central to contemporary philosophy and science, the following questions were asked in recent literature. What is their definition? Are they heuristic devices, arguments, paradoxes? Are they comparable to real experiments? Do intuition and conceivability intervene? Equally imaginative thought experiments are found in ancient, medieval, and Renaissance texts. Paying attention to prime historical examples of thought experiments, we show that historical perspectives help answer these general questions.

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Galileo's use of medieval thought experiments.Carla Rita Palmerino
Introduction : the emergence of the notion of thought experiments.Sophie Roux
On Kant's critique of thought experiments in early modern philosophy.Stelios Virvidakis
On the very idea of a thought experiment.Jean-Yves Goffi & Sophie Roux
Philosophical thought experiments : in or out of the armchair?Pascal Engel
Remarks on the history of an ancient thought experiment.Katerina Ierodiakonou
Thought experiments and indirect proofs in Averroes, Aquinas, and Buridan.Simo Knuuttila & Taneli Kukkonen
Thought experiments and mental simulations.John Zeimbekis
Thought experiments in late medieval debates on atomism.Christophe Grellard
Thought experiments in the De anima commentaries.Peter Lautner

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Katerina Ierodiakonou
University of Geneva
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École Normale Supérieure

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Thought Experiments.Yiftach J. H. Fehige & James R. Brown - 2010 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 25 (1):135-142.

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