NDLI: Tracing the Development of Thought Experiments in the Philosophy of Natural Sciences

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Author	Moue, Aspasia S. Masavetas, Kyriakos A. Karayianni, Haido
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	An overview is provided of how the concept of the thought experiment has developed and changed for the natural sciences in the course of the 20th century. First, we discuss the existing definitions of the term ‘thought experiment’ and the origin of the thought experimentation method, identifying it in Greek Presocratics epoch. Second, only in the end of the 19th century showed up the first systematic enquiry on thought experiments by Ernst Mach’s work. After the Mach’s work, a negative attitude towards thought experiments came in the beginning of the 20th century, which went on until the Thomas Kuhn’s and Karl Popper’s work on thought experiments. Only from the mid-1980s did thought experiments begin to be considered relevant to scientific enterprise. Finally, we show the existing empirical and ‘functional’ theories which have developed about the nature and purpose of thought experiments.
Starting Page	61
Ending Page	75
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09254560
Journal	Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Volume Number	37
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15728587
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2006-11-06
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	thought experiments epistemology natural science philosophy of physics scientific method scientific reasoning scientific discovery Social Sciences Methodology of the Social Sciences Philosophy of Education History Philosophy of Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Social Sciences History and Philosophy of Science

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