Add to ORKGThis article addresses the nature of thought experiments, from ancient times to their use by Einstein for work on relativity. By taking this route, via the work of Galileo, it is hoped that the article will be both more readable and usable by teachers across a wide range of science disciplines
1) Remarks on the historical development of the experimental method 2) Major stages in the developme...
Introduction to a special issue of HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History o...
Published with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Bonn). Preface by Peter Janich. ...
This article concerns the way in which philosophers study the epistemology of scientific thought exp...
Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning with an employment record longer than two a...
Thought experiments in science are merely picturesque argumentation. I support this view in various ...
Thought experiments in science are merely picturesque argumentation. I support this view in various ...
This paper seeks to explain how thought experiments work, and also the reasons why they can fail. Th...
This is a review of those key thought experiments in physics from the late 19th century onward that ...
In this paper, I discuss the similarity between Wittgenstein’s use of thought experiments and Relati...
Preface: This volume originated in a conference on "The Place of Thought Experiments in Science and ...
I provide some considerations on scientific thought experiments, focusing on their epistemic value. ...
Thought experiments provide a conspicuous case study for epistemologists of the imagination. Galileo...
The purpose of this introduction is not to answer each of the questions that may have been asked the...
In part because "imagination" is a slippery notion, its exact role in the production of scientific k...
1) Remarks on the historical development of the experimental method 2) Major stages in the developme...
Introduction to a special issue of HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History o...
Published with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Bonn). Preface by Peter Janich. ...
This article concerns the way in which philosophers study the epistemology of scientific thought exp...
Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning with an employment record longer than two a...
Thought experiments in science are merely picturesque argumentation. I support this view in various ...
Thought experiments in science are merely picturesque argumentation. I support this view in various ...
This paper seeks to explain how thought experiments work, and also the reasons why they can fail. Th...
This is a review of those key thought experiments in physics from the late 19th century onward that ...
In this paper, I discuss the similarity between Wittgenstein’s use of thought experiments and Relati...
Preface: This volume originated in a conference on "The Place of Thought Experiments in Science and ...
I provide some considerations on scientific thought experiments, focusing on their epistemic value. ...
Thought experiments provide a conspicuous case study for epistemologists of the imagination. Galileo...
The purpose of this introduction is not to answer each of the questions that may have been asked the...
In part because "imagination" is a slippery notion, its exact role in the production of scientific k...
1) Remarks on the historical development of the experimental method 2) Major stages in the developme...
Introduction to a special issue of HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History o...
Published with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Bonn). Preface by Peter Janich. ...