What If?

Thought Experimentation in Philosophy
Herausgeber: Rescher, Nicholas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nicholas Reschers What If? undertakes a systematic survey of the role and utility of thought experiments in philosophy. After surveying the historical issues, Rescher examines the principles involved, and explains the conditions under which thought experimentation can validly yield instructive results in philosophy. The reader gains understanding of the differences between scientific and philosophical experiments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nordic Africa Institute
• Seitenzahl: 189
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 162mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780765802927
• ISBN-10: 0765802929
• Artikelnr.: 21138446

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Rescher

Inhaltsangabe

1: Thought Experimentation
2: Thought Experimentation in Science and History
3: Thought Experimentation in Philosophy
4: Thought Experimentation in Pre-Socratic Philosophy
5: Some Classic Philosophical Thought Experiments
6: Aporetics and Cost-Benefit Analysis in Philosophical Thought Experimentation
7: Issues of Speculative Ontology
8: Philosophically Instructive Paradoxes
9: Outlandish Hypotheses and the Limits of Thought Experimentation
10: On Overdoing Thought Experimentation