Michael T. Stuart is a fellow of the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics, UK.

Yiftach Fehige is Associate Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada.

James Robert Brown is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Contents

1. Thought Experiments: State of the Art - Michael T. Stuart, Yiftach Fehige and James Robert Brown








Part One: Selected History of Thought Experiments






2. The Triple Life of Ancient Thought Experiments - Katerina Ierodiakonou





3. Thought Experiments in Plato - Alexander Becker





4. Aristotle and Thought Experiments - Klaus Corcilius





5. Experimental Thoughts on Thought Experiments in Medieval Islam - Jon McGinnis





6. Galileo's Thought Experiments: Projective Participation and the Integration of Paradoxes - Paolo Palmieri





7. Thought Experiments in Newton and Leibniz - Richard T. W. Arthur





8. Kant, Hegel and Wittgenstein: Thought Experiments, Epistemology and Our Cognitive (In)Capacities - Kenneth R. Westphal








Part Two: Thought Experiments and their Fields






9. Thought Experiments in Political Philosophy - Nenad Miš¿evi¿





10. Thought Experiments in Economics - Margaret Schabas





11. Theology and Thought Experiments - Yiftach Fehige





12. Thought Experiments in Ethics - George Brun





13. Happiest Thoughts: Great Thought Experiments of Modern Physics - Kent A. Peacock





14. Thought Experiments in Biology - Guillaume Schlaepfer and Marcel Weber





15. Thought Experiments in Mathematics - Irina Starikova and Marcus Giaquinto








Part Three: Contemporary Philosophical Approaches to Thought Experiments






16. The Argument View: Are Thought Experiments Mere Picturesque Arguments? - Elke Brendel





17. Platonism and the A Priori in Thought Experiments - Thomas Grundmann





18. Cognitive Science, Mental Modeling, and Thought Experiments - Nancy J. Nersessian





19. Kantian Accounts of Thought Experiments - Marco Buzzoni





20. Phenomenology and Thought Experiments: Thought Experiments as Anticipation Pumps - Harald A. Wiltsche








Part Four: Issues, Challenges and Interactions






21. Intuition and Its Critics - Stephen Stich and Kevin Tobia





22. Thought Experiments and Experimental Philosophy - Kirk Ludwig





23. Thought Experiments in Current Metaphilosophical Debates - Daniel Cohnitz and Sören Häggqvist





24. Historicism and Cross-Culture Comparison - James W. McAllister





25. A Dialectical Account of Thought Experiments - Jean-Yves Goffi and Sophie Roux





26. The Worst Thought Experiment - John D. Norton





27. Thought Experiments and Idealizations - Julian Reiss





28. Thought Experiments and Simulation Experiments: Exploring Hypothetical Worlds - Johannes Lenhard





29. Images and Imagination in Thought Experiments - Letitia Meynell