The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments

Michael T Stuart, Yiftach Fehige, James Robert Brown (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

582 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-56971-0 (ISBN)

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Thought experiments lie at the very heart of the study of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era. They play an important role in many other subjects including physics, economics, psychology and cognitive science. The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments is an outstanding reference source to this multi-faceted subject.

Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from physics to politics. The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments is an invaluable guide and reference source to this multifaceted subject. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion covers the following important areas:

· the history of thought experiments, from antiquity to the trolley problem and quantum non-locality;

· thought experiments in the humanities, arts, and sciences, including ethics, physics, theology, biology, mathematics, economics, and politics;

· theories about the nature of thought experiments;

· new discussions concerning the impact of experimental philosophy, cross-cultural comparison studies, metaphilosophy, computer simulations, idealization, dialectics, cognitive science, the artistic nature of thought experiments, and metaphysical issues.

This broad ranging Companion goes backwards through history and sideways across disciplines. It also engages with philosophical perspectives from empiricism, rationalism, naturalism, skepticism, pluralism, contextualism, and neo-Kantianism to phenomenology. This volume will be valuable for anyone studying the methods of philosophy or any discipline that employs thought experiments, as well as anyone interested in the power and limits of the mind.

Michael T. Stuart is a fellow of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics, UK. Yiftach Fehige is Associate Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada. James Robert Brown is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Contents

Thought Experiments: State of the Art – Michael T. Stuart, Yiftach Fehige and James Robert Brown

Part One: Selected History of Thought Experiments

The Triple Life of Ancient Thought Experiments – Katerina Ierodiakonou

Thought Experiments in Plato – Alexander Becker

Aristotle and Thought Experiments – Klaus Corcilius

Experimental Thoughts on Thought Experiments in Medieval Islam – Jon McGinnis

Galileo's Thought Experiments: Projective Participation and the Integration of Paradoxes – Paolo Palmieri

Thought Experiments in Newton and Leibniz – Richard T. W. Arthur

Kant, Hegel and Wittgenstein: Thought Experiments, Epistemology and Our Cognitive (In)Capacities – Kenneth R. Westphal

Part Two: Thought Experiments and their Fields

Thought Experiments in Political Philosophy – Nenad Miščević

Thought Experiments in Economics – Margaret Schabas

Theology and Thought Experiments – Yiftach Fehige

Thought Experiments in Ethics – George Brun

Happiest Thoughts: Great Thought Experiments of Modern Physics – Kent A. Peacock

Thought Experiments in Biology – Guillaume Schlaepfer and Marcel Weber

Thought Experiments in Mathematics – Irina Starikova and Marcus Giaquinto

Part Three: Contemporary Philosophical Approaches to Thought Experiments

The Argument View: Are Thought Experiments Mere Picturesque Arguments? – Elke Brendel

Platonism and the A Priori in Thought Experiments – Thomas Grundmann

Cognitive Science, Mental Modeling, and Thought Experiments – Nancy J. Nersessian

Kantian Accounts of Thought Experiments – Marco Buzzoni

Phenomenology and Thought Experiments: Thought Experiments as Anticipation Pumps – Harald A. Wiltsche

Part Four: Issues, Challenges and Interactions

Intuition and Its Critics – Stephen Stich and Kevin Tobia

Thought Experiments and Experimental Philosophy – Kirk Ludwig

Thought Experiments in Current Metaphilosophical Debates – Daniel Cohnitz and Sören Häggqvist

Historicism and Cross-Culture Comparison – James W. McAllister

A Dialectical Account of Thought Experiments – Jean-Yves Goffi and Sophie Roux

The Worst Thought Experiment – John D. Norton

Thought Experiments and Idealizations – Julian Reiss

Thought Experiments and Simulation Experiments: Exploring Hypothetical Worlds – Johannes Lenhard

Images and Imagination in Thought Experiments – Letitia Meynell

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Philosophy Companions
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	1040 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-032-56971-9 / 1032569719
ISBN-13	978-1-032-56971-0 / 9781032569710
Zustand	Neuware