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Thought Experimentation in Philosophy
Redaktion: Rescher, Nicholas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Thought experimentation has been a staple of philosophical methodology since classical antiquity, when Xenophanes of Colophon speculated that if horses had gods, they would be equine in form

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 189
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351321877
• Artikelnr.: 54205170

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