Free standard shipping on all orders
  • Visa
  • Master Card
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • JCB

The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments book cover

1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments

Edited By Michael T Stuart, Yiftach Fehige, James Robert Brown Copyright 2018
582 Pages
by Routledge

582 Pages
by Routledge

582 Pages
by Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from physics to politics. The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments is an invaluable guide and reference source to this multifaceted subject. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international... Read more

Contents









  1. Thought Experiments: State of the Art – Michael T. Stuart, Yiftach Fehige and James Robert Brown






    2. Part One: Selected History of Thought Experiments







  2. The Triple Life of Ancient Thought Experiments – Katerina Ierodiakonou






  3. Thought Experiments in Plato – Alexander Becker






  4. Aristotle and Thought Experiments – Klaus Corcilius






  5. Experimental Thoughts on Thought Experiments in Medieval Islam – Jon McGinnis






  6. Galileo's Thought Experiments: Projective Participation and the Integration of Paradoxes – Paolo Palmieri






  7. Thought Experiments in Newton and Leibniz – Richard T. W. Arthur






  8. Kant, Hegel and Wittgenstein: Thought Experiments, Epistemology and Our Cognitive (In)Capacities – Kenneth R. Westphal






    9. Part Two: Thought Experiments and their Fields







  9. Thought Experiments in Political Philosophy – Nenad Miščević






  10. Thought Experiments in Economics – Margaret Schabas






  11. Theology and Thought Experiments – Yiftach Fehige






  12. Thought Experiments in Ethics – George Brun






  13. Happiest Thoughts: Great Thought Experiments of Modern Physics – Kent A. Peacock






  14. Thought Experiments in Biology – Guillaume Schlaepfer and Marcel Weber






  15. Thought Experiments in Mathematics – Irina Starikova and Marcus Giaquinto






    16. Part Three: Contemporary Philosophical Approaches to Thought Experiments







  16. The Argument View: Are Thought Experiments Mere Picturesque Arguments? – Elke Brendel






  17. Platonism and the A Priori in Thought Experiments – Thomas Grundmann






  18. Cognitive Science, Mental Modeling, and Thought Experiments – Nancy J. Nersessian






  19. Kantian Accounts of Thought Experiments – Marco Buzzoni






  20. Phenomenology and Thought Experiments: Thought Experiments as Anticipation Pumps – Harald A. Wiltsche






    21. Part Four: Issues, Challenges and Interactions







  21. Intuition and Its Critics – Stephen Stich and Kevin Tobia






  22. Thought Experiments and Experimental Philosophy – Kirk Ludwig






  23. Thought Experiments in Current Metaphilosophical Debates – Daniel Cohnitz and Sören Häggqvist






  24. Historicism and Cross-Culture Comparison – James W. McAllister






  25. A Dialectical Account of Thought Experiments – Jean-Yves Goffi and Sophie Roux






  26. The Worst Thought Experiment – John D. Norton






  27. Thought Experiments and Idealizations – Julian Reiss






  28. Thought Experiments and Simulation Experiments: Exploring Hypothetical Worlds – Johannes Lenhard






  29. Images and Imagination in Thought Experiments – Letitia Meynell

Biography

Michael T. Stuart is a fellow of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics, UK.



Yiftach Fehige is Associate Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada.



James Robert Brown is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada.



Add to Cart