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Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 List of Contributors 10 S. Roux, Introduction: The Emergence of the Notion of Thought Experiments 12 PART ONE: HISTORICAL USES OF THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS 46 K. Ierodiakonou, Remarks on the History of an Ancient Thought Experiment 48 P. Lautner, Thought Experiments in the De Anima Commentaries 62 C. Grellard, Thought Experiments in Late Medieval Debates on Atomism 76 PART TWO: THE POSSIBILITY OF THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS 92 S. Knuuttila and T. Kukkonen, Thought Experiments and Indirect Proofs in Averroes, Aquinas, and Buridan 94 C.R. Palmerino, Galileo’s Use of Medieval Thought Experiments 112 S. Virvidakis, On Kant’s Critique of Thought Experiments in Early Modern Philosophy 138 PART THREE: HOW DO THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS WORK? 154 P. Engel, Philosophical Thought Experiments: In or Out of the Armchair? 156 J.-Y. Goffi and S. Roux, On the Very Idea of a Thought Experiment 176 J. Zeimbekis, Thought Experiments and Mental Simulations 204 Bibliography 228 Index Nominum 240

Author

Roux, Sophie.,Ierodiakonou, Katerina.

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