LEADER 04100nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910456268303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-16137-0 010 $a9786613161376 010 $a90-04-20177-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000000041051 035 $a(EBL)737715 035 $a(OCoLC)743693758 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000503029 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12139462 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000503029 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10451347 035 $a(PQKB)10584403 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC737715 035 $a(OCoLC)710816214$z(OCoLC)709666556 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004201774 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL737715 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10483832 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL316137 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000041051 100 $a20110329d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aThought experiments in methodological and historical contexts$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Katerina Ierodiakonou, Sophie Roux 210 $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cBrill$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (243 p.) 225 1 $aHistory of science and medicine library,$x1872-0684 ;$vv. 19 225 1 $aMedieval and early modern science ;$vv. 15 300 $a"This book is the distant outcome of a workshop on thought experiments that took place in Athens in April 2007"--Acknowledgements. 311 0 $a90-04-20176-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tPreliminary Material /$rK. Ierodiakonou and S. Roux --$tIntroduction: The Emergence Of The Notion Of Thought Experiments /$rS. Roux --$tRemarks On The History Of An Ancient Thought Experiment /$rK. Ierodiakonou --$tThought Experiments In The De Anima Commentaries /$rP. Lautner --$tThought Experiments In Late Medieval Debates On Atomism /$rC. Grellard --$tThought Experiments And Indirect Proofs In Averroes, Aquinas, And Buridan /$rS. Knuuttila and T. Kukkonen --$tGalileo?s Use Of Medieval Thought Experiments /$rC.R. Palmerino --$tOn Kant?s Critique Of Thought Experiments In Early Modern Philosophy /$rS. Virvidakis --$tPhilosophical Thought Experiments: In Or Out Of The Armchair? /$rP. Engel --$tOn The Very Idea Of A Thought Experiment /$rJ.-Y. Goffi and S. Roux --$tThought Experiments And Mental Simulations /$rJ. Zeimbekis --$tBibliography /$rK. Ierodiakonou and S. Roux --$tIndex Nominum /$rK. Ierodiakonou and S. Roux. 330 $aDuring the last decades of the twentieth century highly imaginative thought experiments were introduced in philosophy: Searle?s Chinese room, variations on the Brain-in-a-vat, Thomson?s violinist. At the same time historians of philosophy and science claimed the title of thought experiment for almost any argument: Descartes? evil genius, Buridan?s ass, Gyges? ring. In the early 1990's a systematic debate began concerning the epistemological status of thought experiments. The essays in this volume are an outcome of this debate. They were guided by the idea that, since we cannot forge a strict definition of thought experiments, we should at least tame the contemporary wild usage of this notion by analysing thought experiments from various periods, and thus clarify how they work, what their limits are, and what their conceptualisation could be. Medieval and Early Modern Science , 15 410 0$aHistory of science and medicine library ;$vv. 19. 410 0$aHistory of science and medicine library.$pMedieval and early modern science ;$vv. 15. 606 $aThought experiments$xHistory$vCongresses 606 $aMethodology$vCongresses 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aThought experiments$xHistory 615 0$aMethodology 676 $a190 701 $aIerodiakonou$b Katerina$0530614 701 $aRoux$b Sophie$0895384 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456268303321 996 $aThought experiments in methodological and historical contexts$92000313 997 $aUNINA