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Index
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CONTENTS
List of contributors
Thought experiments: state of the art
PART I Selected history of thought experiments
1 The triple life of ancient thought experiments
2 Thought experiments in Plato
3 Aristotle and thought experiments
4 Experimental thoughts on thought experiments in medieval Islam
5 Galileo’s thought experiments: projective participation and the integration of paradoxes
6 Thought experiments in Newton and Leibniz
7 Thought experiments, epistemology and our cognitive (in)capacities
PART II Thought experiments and their fields
8 Thought experiments in political philosophy
9 Thought experiments in economics
10 Theology and thought experiments
11 Thought experiments in ethics
12 Happiest thoughts: great thought experiments of modern physics
13 Thought experiments in biology
14 Thought experiments in mathematics
PART III Contemporary philosophical approaches to thought experiments
15 The argument view: are thought experiments mere picturesque arguments?
16 Platonism and the a priori in thought experiments
17 Cognitive science, mental modeling, and thought experiments
18 Kantian accounts of thought experiments
19 Phenomenology and thought experiments: thought experiments as anticipation pumps
PART IV Issues, challenges and interactions
20 Intuition and its critics
21 Thought experiments and experimental philosophy
22 Thought experiments in current metaphilosophical debates
23 Historicism and cross-culture comparison
24 A dialectical account of thought experiments
25 The worst thought experiment
26 Thought experiments and idealizations
27 Thought experiments and simulation experiments: exploring hypothetical worlds
28 Images and imagination in thought experiments
29 Art and thought experiments
30 How thought experiments increase understanding
31 On the identity of thought experiments: thought experiments rethought
Index of thought experiments discussed, mentioned or invented in this companion
Author–subject index
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