Why Empiricism Won't Work

In C. Hitchcock (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science (2004)
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A defence of a priori knowledge of nature via thought experiments. The article is part of a pair, the counter-view argued by John Norton.

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Galileo and the indispensability of scientific thought experiment.Tamar Szabó Gendler - 1998 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (3):397-424.
On thought experiments: Is there more to the argument?John D. Norton - 2004 - Philosophy of Science 71 (5):1139-1151.
A model for thought experiments.Sören Häggqvist - 2009 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 39 (1):pp. 55-76.

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