1st Edition
What If? Thought Experimentation in Philosophy
Edited By Nicholas Rescher
Copyright 2005
190 Pages
by
Routledge
189 Pages
by
Routledge
189 Pages
by
Routledge
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Thought experimentation has been a staple of philosophical methodology since classical antiquity, when Xenophanes of Colophon speculated that if horses had gods, they would be equine in form. Nicholas Rescher's What If? undertakes a systematic survey of the role and utility of thought experiments in philosophy. After surveying the historical issues, Rescher examines the principles involved, and... Read more
1: Thought Experimentation; 2: Thought Experimentation in Science and History; 3: Thought Experimentation in Philosophy; 4: Thought Experimentation in Pre-Socratic Philosophy; 5: Some Classic Philosophical Thought Experiments; 6: Aporetics and Cost-Benefit Analysis in Philosophical Thought Experimentation; 7: Issues of Speculative Ontology; 8: Philosophically Instructive Paradoxes; 9: Outlandish Hypotheses and the Limits of Thought Experimentation; 10: On Overdoing Thought Experimentation
Biography
Nicholas Rescher
