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  1. The Dual Nature View of Thought Experiments.Tim De Mey - 2003 - Philosophica 72.
     
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    Imagination's grip on science.Tim de Mey - 2006 - Metaphilosophy 37 (2):222-239.
    In part because "imagination" is a slippery notion, its exact role in the production of scientific knowledge remains unclear. There is, however, one often explicit and deliberate use of imagination by scientists that can be (and has been) studied intensively by epistemologists and historians of science: thought experiments. The main goal of this article is to document the varieties of thought experimentation, not so much in terms of the different sciences in which they occur but rather in terms of the (...)
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    Remodeling the past.Tim De Mey - 2005 - Foundations of Science 10 (1):47-66.
    In some of the papers in which she develops and defends the mental modelview of thought experiments in physics, Nersessian expresses the belief that her account has implications for thought experiments in other domains as well. In this paper, I argue, firstly, that counterfactual reasoning has a legitimate place in historical inquiry, and secondly, that the mental model view can account for such "alternative histories". I proceed as follows. Firstly, I review the main accounts of thought experiments in physics and (...)
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  4. Secondary Qualities in Retrospect.Tim De Mey & Markku Keinänen - 2001 - Philosophica 68.
    Although the importance, both historically and systematically, of the seventeenth century distinction between primary and secondary qualities is commonly recognised, there is no consensus on its exact nature. Apparently, one of the main difficulties in its interpretation is to tell the constitutive from the argumentative elements. In this paper, we focus on the primary-secondary quality distinctions drawn by Boyle and Locke. We criticise, more specifically, MacIntosh’s analysis of them. On the one hand, MacIntosh attributes too many different primary-secondary quality distinctions (...)
     
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  5. Tales of the Unexpected: Incongruity-Resolution in Joke Comprehension, Scientific Discovery and Thought Experimentation.Tim De Mey - 2005 - Logic and Logical Philosophy 14 (1):69-88.
    Some scholars suspect that thought experiments have something in common with jokes. Moreover, Thomas Kuhn has suggested that what happens to someone who thinks through a thought experiment “is very similar to what happens to a man, like Lavoisier, who must assimilate the result of a new unexpected experimental discovery” (1964: 321). In this paper, I pinpoint the presumed commonalities. I identify, more specifically, what cognitive linguists call “incongruity-resolution” as the problem-solving process not only involved in humor comprehension, but in (...)
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  6. Carolien Ceton, Ineke vd Burg, Annemie Halsema, Veronica Vasterling & Karen Vintges (red.), Vrouwelijke filosofen: Een historisch overzicht.Tim De Mey - 2012 - Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 104 (4):309.
     
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  7. De maat van het mogelijke. Gedachte-experimenten en verboelding.Tim De Mey - 2004 - Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 96 (1):28-39.
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  8. De nieuwe kleren van de filosoof: over het nut en nadeel van de experimentele filosofie.Tim De Mey - 2010 - Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 102 (1):59-68.
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    Disjunctive realism about color.Tim De Mey - 2008 - In Tim de Mey & Markku Keinänen (eds.), Problems From Armstrong. Acta Philosophica Fennica 84. pp. 193-200.
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    Het nadeel van de zekerheid: uitgedaagd door het scepticisme.Tim de Mey (ed.) - 2015 - Rotterdam: Lemniscaat.
    Historische en systematische artikelen van Nederlandstalige filosofen over diverse aspecten van scepticisme, toen en nu, in filosofie, religie en wetenschap.
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  11. Introduction.Tim De Mey - 2003 - Philosophica 72.
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    Kuhn's paradox of thought experiments resolved.Tim De Mey - 2005 - The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication 1:111-125.
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  13. Kuhn’s Paradox of Thought Experiments.Tim De Mey - 2005 - The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication 1.
     
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    Mere logical possibility: a bridge too far.Tim De Mey - 2004 - In E. Weber & T. DeMey (eds.), Modal Epistemology. Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie vor Wetenschappen en Kunsten.
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  15. Moral Responsibility – Analytic Approaches.Tim De Mey & Tom Claes - 2012 - Philosophica 85:5-9.
  16. Problems From Armstrong.Tim de Mey & Markku Keinänen (eds.) - 2008 - Acta Philosophica Fennica 84.
    For almost fifty years, David Armstrong has made major contributions in analytic philosophy. The aim of this volume is to collect papers that situate, discuss and critically assess Armstrong’s contributions. The book is organized in three parts. In Section I: Analytical Metaphysics and Its Methodology, certain basic principles of analytic metaphysics advocated by Armstrong (such as truthmaker maximalism and the Doctrine of Ontological Free Lunch) and their consequences are critically examined. The articles of Section II: Laws of Nature, Dispositions, and (...)
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    Recensie.Tim De Mey - 2014 - Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 106 (2):167-170.
    Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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  18. RecenSies-Maureen Sie, hoezo vrije Wil? Perspectieven op een heikele kwestie.Tim De Mey - 2012 - Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 104 (1):68.
     
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    (1 other version)The integrity of exacerbated ambiguity.Tim De Mey - 2016 - Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 108 (3):469-482.
    Although Thomas More is an exemplary figure of both personal and moral integrity, his Utopia is not straightforwardly ‘integer’ in another meaning of the term, i.e., it does not unequivocally describe a ‘whole, intact or pure’ conception of the ideal society. Rather, Utopia is patently ambiguous and challenges the reader to disambiguate the narrative and to make up his own mind on how to construct the ideal society. In this paper, I analyze utopias and dystopias in general as evaluative thought (...)
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    History's demarcation problem.Jenni Tyynelä & Tim De Mey - 2012 - History and Theory 51 (2):270-279.
    In his 1998 book Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds, Lubomír Doležel put forth a theory of narrative fiction based on the interdisciplinary framework of possible worlds. In Possible Worlds of Fiction and History: The Postmodern Stage, Doležel takes his earlier theory further and applies it to historiography as well, with the specific aim of showing how the study of history might be defended against the postmodern challenge via the use of possible worlds semantics. Doležel's book is essentially an argument against (...)
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