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The number of papers, anthologies, and monographs has been growing
immensely since the beginning of the 1990s. It might be useful to
highlight that in existing literature, Kühne (2006) remains the
most substantial historical study on the philosophical exploration of
thought experiments. And Sorensen (1992) remains the most
comprehensive philosophical study of thought experiments. More than
other monographs both of these studies well exceed the author’s
own systematic contribution to what is widely considered the primary
epistemological challenge presented by thought experiments. Also, this
bibliography does not include the many (we count about eight) popular
books on thought experiments (like Wittgenstein’s Beetle and
Other Classical Thought Experiments by Martin Cohen); nor do we
list fiction that is related to the subject (like The End of Mr.
Y by Scarlett Thomas, or God’s Debris by Scott
Adams). Further, for undergraduate teaching purposes one might want to
consider Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought
Experiments (edited by Theodore Schick, Jr. and Lewis Vaughn,
fifth edition, 2012, Boston: McGraw Hill Higher Education), and
chapter 5 of Timothy Williamson’s short introduction to
philosophical method (Oxford University Press, 2020). Moreover, a
number of philosophical journals have dedicated part or all of an
issue to the topic of thought experiments, including the Croatian
Journal of Philosophy (19/VII, 2007), Deutsche Zeitschrift
für Philosophie (1/59, 2011), Informal Logic (3/17,
1995), Philosophica (1/72, 2003), Perspectives on
Science (2/22, 2014), Berichte zur
Wissenschaftsgeschichte (1/38, 2015)), as well as TOPOI
(4/38, 2019), HOPOS (1/11, 2021), and Epistemologia
(12/2022). Furthermore, a companion to thought experiments exists now:
The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments was published
in 2017. Each includes substantial state of the art reports. The
bibliography that follows aims to list only publications that address
thought experiments as such. Not included are the many specialized
papers that discuss a particular thought experiment in its systematic
contribution to the discussion of a particular issue (such as
Putnam’s twin earth scenario to support semantic externalism).
An exception is made, of course, when such work is cited. Unlike in
previous versions of this entry, we no longer aim for
comprehensiveness in the bibliography that follows.
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- Bailey, Cyril, 1950, Lucretius on the Nature of Things
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- Bishop, Michael, 1998, “An Epistemological Role for Thought Experiments”, in N. Shanks (ed.), Idealization IX: Idealization in Contemporary Physics, Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopoi, 19–33. (Scholar)
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- Boniolo, Giovanni, 1997, “On a Unified Theory of Models and Thought Experiments in Natural sciences”, International Studies in Philosophy of Science, 11: 121–142. (Scholar)
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- Brendel, Elke, 1999, “Gedankenexperimente als Motor der
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- Daiber, Jürgen, 2001, Experimentalphysik des Geistes:
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- Davenport, Edward A., 1983, “Literature as Thought
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- Davies, David, 2007, “Thought Experiments and Fictional Narratives”, Croatian Journal of Philosophy, VII: 29–45. (Scholar)
- De Baere, Benoit, 2003, “Thought Experiments, Rhetoric, and Possible Worlds”, Philosophica, 72: 105–130. (Scholar)
- De Mey, Tim, 2003, “The Dual Nature View of Thought Experiments”, Philosophica, 72: 61–78. (Scholar)
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- –––, 2006, “Imagination’s Grip on
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- –––, 1991, Consciousness Explained, New York: Little Brown. (Scholar)
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- –––, 2005, Sweet Dreams, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
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Inquiry, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. (Scholar)
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Sheep? Wittgenstein and Thought-Experiments in Ethics”,
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- –––, 2013, “The Relativized A Priori and the Laboratory of the Mind: Towards a Neo-Kantian Account of Thought Experiments in Science”, Epistemologia: Italian Journal for Philosophy of Science, 36: 55–63. (Scholar)
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