Thought Experiments Rethought—and Reperceived
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10707302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamar Szabó Gendler (Cornell University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1152-1163 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/425239 |
| OpenAlex | W1985486826 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 8 |
Contemplating imaginary scenarios that evoke certain sorts of quasi-sensory intuitions may bring us to new beliefs about contingent features of the natural world. These beliefs may be produced quasi-observationally; the presence of a mental image may play a crucial cognitive role in the formation of the belief in question. And this albeit fallible quasi-observational belief-forming mechanism may, in certain contexts, be sufficiently reliable to count as a source of justification. This sheds light on the central puzzle surrounding scientific thought experiment, which is how contemplation of an imaginary scenario can lead to new knowledge about contingent features of the natural world
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Contemplation · Epistemology · Mechanism (biology) · Natural (archaeology) · Psychoanalysis · The Imaginary · Thought experiment · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · History · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology · Science and Climate Studies · Social Psychology
Thought experiments in the Jefferson-Turing controversy
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Düşünce Deneyleri̇ni̇n Epi̇stemoloji̇k Statüsü
A Game of Perspectives
Thought Experiments and the Belief in Phenomena
Studying scientific thought experiments in their context
Thought experiments in personal identity
What the Science of Morality Doesn’t Say About Morality
Platonic” thought experiments
Sharpening the tools of imagination
Putting the ‘Experiment’ back into the ‘Thought Experiment’
Toward a constructivist epistemology of thought experiments in science
Imagination and insight
The computational philosophy
What is the experimentalist challenge to the method of cases
Towards a dual process epistemology of imagination
Philosophical thought experiments as heuristics for theory discovery
The epistemology of thought experiments without exceptionalist ingredients
Taming theory with thought experiments
Bringing thought experiments back into the philosophy of science
The material theory of induction and the epistemology of thought experiments
Peeking into Plato's Heaven
Thought Experiments, Literary Fiction, and Science Fiction
Spatial diagrams and geometrical reasoning in the theater
Imagination in science
| Citations per year | 1.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |