The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments

ContentsThought Experiments: State of the Art - Michael T. Stuart, Yiftach Fehige and James Robert Brown Part One: Selected History of Thought ExperimentsThe Triple Life of Ancient Thought Experiments - Katerina Ierodiakonou Thought Experiments in Plato - Alexander Becker Aristotle and Thought Experiments - Klaus CorciliusExperimental Thoughts on Thought Experiments in Medieval Islam - Jon McGinnisGalileo\'s Thought Experiments: Projective Participation and the Integration of Paradoxes - Paolo Palmieri Thought Experiments in Newton and Leibniz - Richard T. W. ArthurKant, Hegel and Wittgenstein: Thought Experiments, Epistemology and Our Cognitive (In)Capacities - Kenneth R. WestphalPart Two: Thought Experiments and their FieldsThought Experiments in Political Philosophy - Nenad Miscevic Thought Experiments in Economics - Margaret Schabas Theology and Thought Experiments - Yiftach FehigeThought Experiments in Ethics - George Brun Happiest Thoughts: Great Thought Experiments of Modern Physics - Kent A. Peacock Thought Experiments in Biology - Guillaume Schlaepfer and Marcel Weber Thought Experiments in Mathematics - Irina Starikova and Marcus GiaquintoPart Three: Contemporary Philosophical Approaches to Thought ExperimentsThe Argument View: Are Thought Experiments Mere Picturesque Arguments? - Elke Brendel Platonism and the A Priori in Thought Experiments - Thomas GrundmannCognitive Science, Mental Modeling, and Thought Experiments - Nancy J. Nersessian Kantian Accounts of Thought Experiments - Marco Buzzoni Phenomenology and Thought Experiments: Thought Experiments as Anticipation Pumps - Harald A. Wiltsche Part Four: Issues, Challenges and InteractionsIntuition and Its Critics - Stephen Stich and Kevin Tobia Thought Experiments and Experimental Philosophy - Kirk Ludwig Thought Experiments in Current Metaphilosophical Debates - Daniel Cohnitz and Soeren Haggqvist Historicism and Cross-Culture Comparison - James W. McAllister A Dialectical Account of Thought Experiments - Jean-Yves Goffi and Sophie RouxThe Worst Thought Experiment - John D. NortonThought Experiments and Idealizations - Julian Reiss Thought Experiments and Simulation Experiments: Exploring Hypothetical Worlds - Johannes Lenhard Images and Imagination in Thought Experiments - Letitia Meynell Art and Thought Experiments - David Davies How Thought Experiments Increase Understanding - Michael T. StuartOn the Identity of Thought Experiments: Thought Experiments Rethought - Alisa Bokulich and Melanie Frappier