The Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences
By Brown, James Robert
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The Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences starts with Galileo's argument on falling bodies, where Brown describes numerous examples of the most influential thought experiments from the history of science. Following this introduction to the subject, some substantial and provocative claims are made, the principle being that some thought experiments should be understood in the same way that platonists understand mathematical activity: as an intellectual grasp of an independently existing abstract realm.
Beyond this `Laboratory of the Mind´ metaphor it is difficult to say just what these remarkable devices for investigating nature are or how they work. Though most scientists and philosophers would admit their great importance, there has been very little serious study of them. With its clarity of style and structure, The Laboratory of the Mind will find readers among all philosophers of science as well as scientists who have puzzled over how thought experiments work.
1st Edition. 192 Pages. eBook published 2005. Included in Philosophical Issues in Science Series. Get access to the individual chapters at Taylor & Francis eBooks.
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ISBN: Paperback: 9780415095792, ebook: 9780203979150
Hardback & eBook: £30.39 (6 Month Rental £20.90, 12 Month Rental £24.70)
Year: 1993
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