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Brill
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English
Pages
233

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Table of Contents

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

Edition Notes

"This book is the distant outcome of a workshop on thought experiments that took place in Athens in April 2007"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Leiden, Boston
Series
History of science and medicine library -- v. 19, Medieval and early modern science -- v. 15, History of science and medicine library -- v. 19., Medieval and early modern science -- v. 15.

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190
Library of Congress
BD265 .T46 2011, BD265

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vi, 233 p. ;
Number of pages
233

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OL25053692M
Internet Archive
thoughtexperimen00iero
ISBN 10
9004201769
ISBN 13
9789004201767
LCCN
2011011640
OCLC/WorldCat
710816214

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