Thought Experiment Thought Experiment
Studies in Philosophy

Thought Experiment

On the Powers and Limits of Imaginary Cases

Tamar Szabo Gendler
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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
RELEASED
2014
14 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
280
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor & Francis
SIZE
1.9
MB

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