Thought Experiments in Science Philosophy and the Arts 1st Edition by Melanie Frappier, James Robert Brown, Letitia Meynell ISBN 978-1138921832 1138921831

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ISBN 10: 1138921831

ISBN 13: 978-1138921832

Author:  Melanie Frappier, James Robert Brown,  Letitia Meynell

From Lucretius throwing a spear beyond the boundary of the universe to Einstein racing against a beam of light, thought experiments stand as a fascinating challenge to the necessity of data in the empirical sciences. Are these experiments, conducted uniquely in our imagination, simply rhetorical devices or communication tools or are they an essential part of scientific practice? This volume surveys the current state of the debate and explores new avenues of research into the epistemology of thought experiments.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction
   By James Robert Brown, Letitia Meynell, Mélanie Frappier

2. Thought Experiment and the Exercise of Imagination in Science
   By James W. McAllister

3. Veridical Idealizations
   By Roy Sorensen

4. What Do We See in a Thought Experiment?
   By James Robert Brown

5. The Body, Thought Experiments, and Phenomenology
   By Yiftach J. H. Fehige, Harald Wiltsche

6. Thought Experiments from a Kantian Point of View
   By Marco Buzzoni

7. Can Thought Experiments Be Resolved by Experiment?
   The Case of Aristotle’s Wheel
   By Richard T. W. Arthur

8. Chasing the Light
   Einstein’s Most Famous Thought Experiment
   By John D. Norton

9. At the Limits of Possibility
   Thought Experiments in Quantum Gravity
   By Mark Shumelda

10. Craig Venter’s New Life
    The Realization of Some Thought Experiments in Biological Ontology
    By W. Ford Doolittle

11. Genealogical Thought Experiments in Economics
    By Julian Reiss

12. Political Thought Experiments from Plato to Rawls
    By Nenad Miščević

13. Thought Experiment, Definition, and Literary Fiction
    By Geordie McComb

14. Can Philosophical Thought Experiments Be “Screened”?
    By David Davies

15. Computational Modeling
    Is This the End of Thought Experiments in Science?
    By Sanjay Chandrasekharan, Nancy J. Nersessian, Vrishali Subramanian

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