Thought experiment : on the powers and limits of imaginary cases / Tamar Szabó Gendler.

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 u...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Gendler, Tamar
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxfordshire, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2013.
Series:	Studies in philosophy (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:	Thought experiments.