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Title Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts / edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou, Sophie Roux.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2011]
©2011
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 233 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series History of science and medicine library, 1872-0684 ; v. 19
Medieval and early modern science ; v. 15
History of science and medicine library ; v. 19.
History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; v. 15.
Note "This book is the distant outcome of a workshop on thought experiments that took place in Athens in April 2007"--Acknowledgements.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-228) and index.
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.
Summary "This book is the distant outcome of a workshop on thought experiments that took place in Athens in April 2007"--Acknowledgements.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Thought experiments -- History -- Congresses.
Thought experiments.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Ierodiakonou, Katerina.
Roux, Sophie.
Other Form: Print version: Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2011 9789004201767 (DLC) 2011011640 (OCoLC)710816214
ISBN 9789004201774 (electronic book)
9004201777 (electronic book)
1283161370
9781283161374
9789004201767 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9004201769 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
Standard No. 9786613161376

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