thought experiments

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Baggini on Thought Experiments	A podcast about thought experimenting in philosophy.	thought experiments, philosophical method	view
Handout 2: What are Thought Experiments?	Sheet with some characterisations (quotes).	thought experiments	view
Handout 3: Overview Theories of Thought Experiments	A list with sketches; Molyneux's Question on the back.	thought experiments	view
Handout 5: The Knowledge and Zombie Arguments	Background for the Mary and zombie thought experiments.	thought experiments	view
Handout 6: Function and Experience	Background about functionalism and internalism. Extract from Kuhn.	thought experiments, functionalism, inverted earth	view
Handout 7: The Twin Earth Case	Revised background information about Putnam's thought experiment; sketch of Häggqvist's model for thought experiments.	thought experiments	view
The 'Trigger' View	A selection of articles by T. Szabo Gendler. Of particular interest is 'Philosophical Thought Experiments, Intuitions, and Cognitive Equilibrium...	thought experiments, reconceptualisation	view
The Argument View	Article Preprint: Norton, J. D. (2004). Thought Experiment: is there More to the Argument? Philosophy of Science, 71, 1139–51....	thought experiments	view
The Model View	Link to N. Nersessian's website with online publications; look for 'In the theoretician's laboratory: Thought experimenting as mental modeling'...	thought experiments	view
Thought Experiments	Entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy by J. R. Brown and Y. Fehige, 2011.	thought experiments, philosophical method	view

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