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Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Contributors; Imagining Nenad; Accounting for Thought Experiments -- 25 Years Later; Part I: Thought Experiment -- General; From Anti-Metaphysics to Metaphysics; Nenad's Reply; Intuitions and Thought Experiments; Nenad's Reply; Miš evi on Intuitions and Thought Experiments; Nenad's Reply; Curiosity and the Argumentative Process; Nenad's Reply; Semantic Transformations; Nenad's Reply; Lucky Math; Nenad's Reply; Epistemic Luck and Logical Necessities; Nenad's Reply; Did a Particularist Kill the Thought Experiments?; Nenad's Reply |
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Part II: Thought Experiments and NatureExperimental Philosophy, Gettier-Cases, and Pragmatic Projection; Nenad's Reply; Concepts in a World of Particulars; Nenad's Reply; Is the Speed of Light Knowable A Priori?; Nenad's Reply; Mental Models in Scientific Work; Nenad's Reply; Natural Kinds and Conceptual Truth; Nenad's Reply; Grasping the Basic Arithmetical Concepts; Nenad's Reply; The Colour Dilemma; Nenad's Reply; Dasein in a Vat; Nenad's Reply; Part III: Thought Experiments and Society; Knowing One's Own Mind; Nenad's Reply |
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The False Promise of Thought-Experimentation in Moral and Political PhilosophyNenad's Reply; Miš evi, Mental Models, and Thought Experiments in Political Philosophy; Nenad's Reply; Are Nations Social Constructs? Nenad on Nations; Nenad's Reply; Thought Experiments in Teaching; Nenad's Reply; The Ring of Gyges and the Philosophical Imagination; Nenad's Reply; Index |
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As a prominent figure in analytic philosophy of the 20th and 21st centuries, Nenad Miščević has enriched, enhanced, and expanded many areas of the field. This volume, dedicated to him for his 65th birthday, follows the virtues he so much respects - conceptual analysis, rigorous use of logics, and clear definitions - and applies them to a very hot topic in philosophy, thought experiments. Present throughout the history of philosophy, thought experiments have become indispensable for the discipline and for analytic philosophy in particular. But questions can be asked, as to what exactly is a thou |
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Thought experiments -- History
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Philosophy -- Research
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Philosophy and science.
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Philosophy of mind.
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Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology.
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Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge.
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Social & political philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Philosophy and science
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Philosophy of mind
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Philosophy -- Research
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Thought experiments
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History
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Electronic book
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9781443873154 |
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1443873152 |
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