Wittgenstein's beetle and other classic thought experiments
Martin Cohen
Wittgenstein's beetle and other classic thought experiments
Author
Martin CohenPublisher
Blackwell Pub.Edition 1
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Wittgenstein's beetle and other classic thought experiments / Martin CohenPublication Details
آکسفورد : Blackwell Pub.، 2005مPhysical Description
ix, 135 p.: ill.; 24 cm..Subject
Thought experimentsLanguage
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Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents
A is for Alice and astronomers arguing about acceleration -- B is for Bernard's body-exchange machine -- C is for the Catholic cannibal -- D is for Maxwell's demon -- E is for evolution (and an embarrassing problem with it) -- F is for the forms lost forever to the prisoners of the cave -- G is for Galileo's gravitational balls -- H is for Hume's shades -- I is for the identity of indiscernibles -- J is for Henri Poincare and alternative geometries -- K is for the Kritik and Kant's kind of thought experiments -- L is for Lucretius' spear -- M is for Mach's motionless chain -- N is for Newton's bucket -- O is for Olbers' paradox -- P is for Parfit's person -- Q is for the questions raised by thought experiments quotidiennes -- R is for the rule-ruled room -- S is for Salvatius' ship, sailing along its own space-time line -- T is for the time-travelling twins -- U is for the universe, and Einstein's attempts to understand it -- V is for the vexed case of the violinist -- W is for Wittgenstein's beetle -- X is for xenophanes and thinking by examples -- Y is for counterfactuals and a backwards approach to history -- Z is for Zeno and the mysteries of infinity