Thought Experiment: On the Powers and Limits of Imaginary Cases
Routledge (2000)
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This book offers a novel analysis of the widely-used but ill-understood technique of thought experiment. The author argues that the powers and limits of this methodology can be traced to the fact that when the contemplation of an imaginary scenario brings us to new knowledge, it does so by forcing us to make sense of exceptional cases
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| Call number | BD265.G46 2000 |
| ISBN(s) | 9781315054117 9780815336563 081533656X 9781138990333 1138990337 |
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