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Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments
2008, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Wittgenstein's beetle and other classic thought experiments
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Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments
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Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments
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WITTGENSTEIN'S BEETLE AND OTHER CLASSIC THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS.
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Table of Contents
A is for Alice and astronomers arguing about acceleration in a hole through the earth
B is for Bernard's body-exchange machine
C is for the Catholic cannibal
D is for Maxwell's demon
E is for evolution (and an embarrassing problem with it)
F is for the forms lost forever to the prisoners in the cave
G is for Galileo's gravitational balls
H is for Hume's shades
I is for the identity of indiscernibles
J is for Henri Poincaré and alternative geometries
K is for the Kritik and Kant's kind of thought experiments
L is for Lucretius' spear
M is for Mach's motionless chain
N is for Newton's bucket
O is for Olbers' paradox
P is for Parfit's person
Q is for the questions raised by thought experiments quotidiennes
R is for the rule-ruled room
S is for Salvatius' ship, proceeding serenely along its own space-time line
T is for the time-travelling twins
U is for the universe, and Einstein's attempts to understand it
V is for the vexed case of the needy violinist
W is for Wittgenstein's beetle
X is for xenophanes and thinking by examples
Y is for counterfactuals and a backwards approach to history
Z is for Zeno and the mysteries of infinity
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