Thought Experiments

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Finally, the book provides a way to systematize the history of important thought experiments in science and philosophy and thus connects, in an original way, the systematic investigation of experimenting to the historical work of famous thought experiments.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-09-30
Mått155 x 235 x 15 mm
Vikt374 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor130
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030810818

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Nenad Miscevic is Professor of philosophy at the Philosophical faculty in Maribor, Slovenia, and has been, until this year, Regular Visiting Professor at Central European University Budapest. He also taught as guest professor at Universities of Geneva, Trieste and Klagenfurt. He studied philosophy in Zagreb, Chicago, Paris and Ljubljana, where he defended his doctorate thesis. He has been President of European Society of Analytic Philosophy and has held presidential functions in philosophical societies of his home country.He has published a number of books in Croatian and three books in English, two in semantics and one in political philosophy and has been contributing to volumes on thought experiments, most recently to the Routledge Handbook of Thought experiments.

Introduction: What are thought experiments?.- The main characteristics: stages of experiments, their role in science in philosophy, their closest relatives.- Uderstanding the thought experiments: empiricist, Platonist and inferentialist proposals, the mental modelling as alternative.- The challenge of experimental philosophy.- Understanding the history of influential though-experiments.- Conclusion.