Thought experiments

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• 1 What Are Thought Experiments? = 1
• 1.1 Introduction = 1
• 1.1.1 Two Famous Thought Experiments = 1
• 1.2 More Examples—From Science to Philosophy = 4
• 1.3 What is a TE? = 7
• 1.4 TEs and their Relatives = 10
• 1.5 Conclusion = 14
• References = 15
• 2 The Life and Importance of TEs = 17
• 2.1 The Stages of TE = 17
• 2.2 Intuition = 23
• 2.3 The Role of TEs = 26
• References = 29
• 3 Understanding Thought Experiments = 31
• 3.1 Empiricist-Inferentialist Proposals = 31
• 3.2 A Platonist Alternative = 36
• 3.2.1 The Strong Platonist Option = 36
• 3.2.2 The Conceptualist Moderate Platonist Approach = 39
• 3.3 A Kantian Proposal = 41
• 3.4 Imaginative-Counterfactual Approach = 44
• 3.5 Mental Modelling Approaches = 47
• 3.6 Conclusion = 50
• References = 51
• 4 A Theory of TEs = 53
• 4.1 Mental Modelling = 53
• 4.2 Intuitions : Moderate Voice of Competence (MoVoC) Theory = 64
• 4.3 Appendix : The Puzzles of Geometrical and Numerical Intuitions = 68
• References = 74
• 5 Do TEs Have a Life of Their Own? = 75
• 5.1 Introduction = 75
• 5.2 Reminder : The Twin Earth Te and Its Stages = 77
• 5.3 Empty Thoughts : Peter Unger’s Critism of Analytic Methodology = 81
• 5.4 Stages and Traditions—From the Synchronic to the Diachronic = 84
• 5.5 Trails-Traditions = 88
• References = 90
• 6 The Challenge of Experimental Philosophy = 91
• 6.1 X-phi-the Negative Program = 91
• 6.1.1 Introduction = 91
• 6.1.2 The Challenge = 92
• 6.2 Defending TEs = 98
• 6.2.1 The Expertise Defense of TEs = 99
• 6.2.2 Stages Defense—A Proposal = 102
• 6.3 Conclusion = 115
• 6.4 Are Scientific TEs Better than the Philosophical Ones? = 117
• References = 119
• 7 Conclusion = 123
• References = 130