| Description |
1 online resource (373 pages) |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I. Thought Experiments, Intuitions, and Philosophical Methodology""; ""Thought Experiments in Science""; ""1. Galileo and the Indispensability of Scientific Thought Experiment (1998)""; ""2. Thought Experiments Rethought�and Reperceived (2004)""; ""Thought Experiments and Personal Identity""; ""3. Exceptional Persons: On the Limits of Imaginary Cases (1998)""; ""4. Personal Identity and Thought Experiments (2002)""; ""Intuitions and Philosophical Methodology"" |
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""5. The Real Guide to Fake Barns: A Catalogue of Gifts for Your Epistemic Enemies (with John Hawthorne) (2005)""""6. Philosophical Thought Experiments, Intuitions, and Cognitive Equilibrium (2007)""; ""Part II. Pretense, Imagination, and Belief""; ""Pretense and Belief""; ""7. On the Relation between Pretense and Belief (2003)""; ""8. Self-Deception as Pretense (2008)""; ""Imaginative Resistance""; ""9. The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance (2000)""; ""10. Imaginative Resistance Revisited (2006)""; ""Imagination and Emotion"" |
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""11. Genuine Rational Fictional Emotions (with Karson Kovakovich) (2005)""""12. Imaginative Contagion (2006)""; ""Belief and Alief""; ""13. Alief and Belief (2008)""; ""14. Alief in Action (and Reaction) (2008)""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index of Names""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Subject Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W"" |
| Summary |
Tamar Gendler draws together a series of essays in which she investigates philosophical methodology, and shows the value for philosophy of empirical psychology. Three intertwined themes run through the volume: imagination, intuition and philosophical methodology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-347) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Intuition -- Philosophy
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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Thought and thinking -- Philosophy
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Methodology.
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Methods
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methodology.
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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Methodology.
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Thought and thinking -- Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191002298 |
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0191002291 |
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