Wittgenstein's beetle and other classic thought experiments [electronic resource] / Martin Cohen.
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Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA :
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2005.
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Table of Contents:
- A is for Alice and astronomers arguing about acceleration
- B is for Bernard's body-exchange machine
- C is for the Catholic cannibal
- D is for Maxwell's demon
- E is for evolution (and an embarrassing problem with it)
- F is for the forms lost forever to the prisoners of the cave
- G is for Galileo's gravitational balls
- H is for Hume's shades
- I is for the identity of indiscernibles
- J is for Henri Poincaré and alternative geometries
- K is for the Kritik and Kant's kind of thought experiments
- L is for Lucretius' spear
- M is for Mach's motionless chain
- N is for Newton's bucket
- O is for Olbers' paradox
- P is for Parfit's person
- Q is for the questions raised by thought experiments quotidiennes
- R is for the rule-ruled room
- S is for Salvatius' ship, sailing along its own space-time line
- T is for the time-travelling twins
- U is for the universe, and Einstein's attempts to understand it
- V is for the vexed case of the violinist
- W is for Wittgenstein's beetle
- X is for xenophanes and thinking by examples
- Y is for counterfactuals and a backwards approach to history
- Z is for Zeno and the mysteries of infinity.