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Abbott, Russ (2007) Bits don’t have error bars. [Preprint]

Altschul, Jon (2015) Burge on Perception and the Disjunction Problem. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 30 (2). pp. 251-269. ISSN 2171-679X

Azhar, Feraz and Guth, Alan H. and Namjoo, Mohammad Hossein (2021) A Bayesian View on the Dr. Evil Scenario.

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Bacelar Valente, Mario (2018) What do light clocks say to us regarding the so-called clock hypothesis? THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 33 (3). pp. 435-446. ISSN 2171-679X

Bach, Theodore (2022) On the Limitations and Criticism of Experimental Philosophy. [Preprint]

Bach, Theodore (2019) Why the Empirical Study of Non-Philosophical Expertise Does Not Undermine the Status of Philosophical Expertise. Erkenntnis, 86 (4). pp. 999-1023.

Bevers, Brett (2011) Can Many-Worlds Survive a Quantum Doomsday. [Preprint]

Bitbol, Michel (2008) CONSCIOUSNESS, SITUATIONS, AND THE MEASUREMENT PROBLEM OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. [Preprint]

Bokulich, Alisa and Frappier, Mélanie (2017) On the Identity of Thought Experiments: Thought Experiments Rethought. The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments.

Brown, James Robert (2021) Rigour and Thought Experiments: Burgess and Norton. [Preprint]

Brun, Georg (2017) Thought Experiments in Ethics. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Buzzoni, Marco (2017) Kantian Accounts of Thought Experiments. [Preprint]

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Coninx, Sabrina and Willemsen, Pascale and Reuter, Kevin (2022) Pain Linguistics: A Case for Pluralism. [Preprint]

Conitzer, Vincent (2018) A Puzzle about Further Facts. Erkenntnis. ISSN 0165-0106

Curiel, Erik (2014) If Metrical Structure Were Not Dynamical, Counterfactuals in General Relativity Would Be Easy. [Preprint]

Curiel, Erik (2014) Why Rigid Designation Cannot Stand on Scientific Ground. [Preprint]

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Dieks, Dennis and Lam, Sander (2007) Complementarity in the Bohr-Einstein Photon Box. [Preprint]

Donhauser, Justin (2017) Invisible disagreement: an inverted qualia argument for realism. Philosophical Studies, 174 (3). pp. 593-606.

Dulani, Saakshi (2024) Black Hole Paradoxes: A Unified Framework for Information Loss. [Preprint]

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Eder, Anna-Maria and Lawler, Insa and van Riel, Raphael (2018) Philosophical Methods Under Scrutiny: Introduction to the Special Issue "Philosophical Methods". Synthese.

El Skaf, Rawad (2021) Probing Theoretical Statements with Thought Experiments. [Preprint]

El Skaf, Rawad (2021) Probing Theoretical Statements with Thought Experiments. Synthese. ISSN 1573-0964

El Skaf, Rawad (2017) What notion of possibility should we use in assessing scientific thought experiments? Lato Sensu, revue de la Société de philosophie des sciences, 4 (1). pp. 19-30. ISSN 2295-8029

El Skaf, Rawad (2018) The function and limit of Galileo’s falling bodies thought experiment: Absolute weight, Specific weight and the Medium’s resistance. [Preprint]

El Skaf, Rawad (2018) The function and limit of Galileo’s falling bodies thought experiment: Absolute weight, Specific weight and the Medium’s resistance. In: UNSPECIFIED.

El Skaf, Rawad and Palacios, Patricia (2022) What Can we Learn (and not Learn) from Thought Experiments in Black Hole Thermodynamics? [Preprint]

El Skaf, Rawad and Stuart, Michael T. (2023) Scientific Models and Thought Experiments: Same Same but Different. [Preprint]

Ellerman, David (2019) Quantum Mechanics over Sets: A pedagogical model with non-commutative finite probability theory as its quantum probability calculus. [Preprint]

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Finkelman, Leonard (2018) De-extinction and the Conception of Species. [Preprint]

Finkelstein, J. (2008) Sleeping Beauty: theme and variations. [Preprint]

Fischer, Eugen and Herbelot, Aurelie (2022) How understanding shapes reasoning: Experimental argument analysis with methods from psycholinguistics and computational linguistics. [Preprint]

Fischer, Eugen and Sytsma, Justin (2022) Projects and Methods of Experimental Philosophy. [Preprint]

Franceschi, Paul (2005) Sleeping Beauty and the Problem of World Reduction. [Preprint]

Franceschi, Paul (2016) The Simulation Argument and the Reference Class Problem : a Dialectical Contextualism Analysis. [Preprint]

French, Steven (2020) Imagination in Scientific Practice. [Preprint]

French, Steven and Murphy, Alice (2021) The Value of Surprise in Science. [Preprint]

Frigg, Roman (2021) Scientific Modelling and Make-Believe. Art, Representation, and Make-Believe. Essays on the Philosophy of Kendall L. Walton. pp. 367-383.

Frigg, Roman and Nguyen, James (2021) Seven Myths about the Fiction View of Models. Models and Idealizations in Science. Artifactual and Fictional Approaches. pp. 133-157.

Frigg, Roman and Salis, Fiora (2020) Of Rabbits and Men. Fictionalism in Philosophy.

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Gao, Shan (2023) Is decoherence necessary for the emergence of many worlds? [Preprint]

Gao, Shan (2020) A thought experiment in many worlds. [Preprint]

Gerig, Austin (2012) The Doomsday Argument in Many Worlds. [Preprint]

Griffiths, Paul E. and Machery, Edouard and Linquist, Stefan (2008) The Vernacular Concept of Innateness. [Preprint]

Groisman, Berry (2007) The end of Sleeping Beauty’s nightmare. [Preprint]

Groisman, Berry (2007) The end of Sleeping Beauty’s nightmare. [Preprint]

Grüne-Yanoff, Till (2012) Appraising Non-Representational Models. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Hartmann, Bruno (2013) Physical Determination of the Action. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Healey, Richard (2022) Securing the Objectivity of Relative Facts in the Quantum World. [Preprint]

Healey, Richard A. (2021) Scientific Objectivity and its Limits. [Preprint]

Hermida, Margarida (2023) Thought experiments, sentience, and animalism. [Preprint]

Hoehn, Philipp A (2017) Quantum theory from rules on information acquisition. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Horowitz, Tamara and Massey, Gerald (1991) THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS IN SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY. UNSPECIFIED.

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Islas, Damian (2017) Evaluating the Cognitive Success of Thought Experiments. [Preprint]

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Jalobeanu, Dana (2014) Elements of natural history in Sidereus Nuncius. Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, 58 (1). pp. 55-78. ISSN 1220-5400

Janković, Srdja and Katić, Ana and Cirkovic, Milan M. (2022) Gaia as Solaris: An Alternative Default Evolutionary Trajectory. [Preprint]

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Kaaronen, Roope Oskari (2018) Exploration and Exploitation in Scientific Inquiry: Towards a Society of Explorers. [Preprint]

Kastner, Ruth (2021) Unitary Interactions Do Not Yield Outcomes: Attempting to Model ``Wigner's Friend''. [Preprint]

Kuehne, Ulrich J. (1997) Gedankenexperiment und Erklärung / Thought Experiment and Scientific Explanation. UNSPECIFIED.

Kuehne, Ulrich J. (2009) A Short History of the Method of Thought Experiments in Science. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Kuehne, Ulrich J. (1995) Thought Experiments and the Inference to a Coherent Explanation. [Preprint]

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LaCroix, Travis (2022) Moral Dilemmas for Moral Machines. [Preprint]

Larroulet Philippi, Cristian (2023) Well-Being Measurements and the Linearity Assumption: A Response to Wodak. Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Lenhard, Johannes (2016) Thought Experiments and Simulation Experiments: Exploring Hypothetical Worlds. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Leon, Antonio (2008) Criticism of Benacerraf's criticism of modern eleatics. [Preprint]

Leon, Antonio (2006) Hilbert's machine and the Axiom of Infinity. [Preprint]

Leon, Antonio (2010) On bifurcated supertasks and related questions. [Preprint]

Loaiza, Juan R. (2017) Molyneux’s Question in Berkeley’s Theory of Vision. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 32 (2). pp. 231-247. ISSN 2171-679X

Ludwig, Kirk (2016) Thought Experiments and Experimental Philosophy. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Mallah, Jacques (2009) Many-Worlds Interpretations Can Not Imply ‘Quantum Immortality’. [Preprint]

Marco, Buzzoni (2009) Empirical Thought Experiments: A Trascendental-Operational View. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Mattingly, James and Warwick, Walter (2006) Projectible Predicates in Analogue and Simulated Systems. In: UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

Mayo-Wilson, Conor and Zollman, Kevin J.S. (2020) The Computational Philosophy: Simulation as a Core Philosophical Method. [Preprint]

McGinnis, Jon (2016) Experimental thoughts about thought experiments in medieval Islam. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Md Amin, Mohamed Eusuff (2021) Is Rationalism Necessitates Dualism? [Preprint]

Molnár, Attila and Székely, Gergely (2013) Axiomatizing Relativistic Dynamics using Formal Thought Experiments. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Moruzzi, Caterina (2020) Measuring Creativity: An Account of Natural and Artificial Creativity. [Preprint]

Mulder, Ruward A. and Muller, F.A. (2022) Modal-Logical Reconstructions of Thought Experiments. [Preprint]

Murphy, Alice (2022) Form and Content: A Defence of Aesthetic Value in Science. [Preprint]

Murphy, Alice (2024) Imagination and Creativity in the Scientific Realm. [Preprint]

Murphy, Alice (2019) Towards a Pluralist Account of the Imagination in Science. [Preprint]

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Norton, John D. (2006) Discovering the Relativity of Simultaneity How did Einstein take "The Step"? [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2012) Paradoxes of Sailing. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2016) How Einstein Did Not Discover. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2017) Maxwell's Demon Does Not Compute. [Preprint]

Norton, John D. (2016) The Worst Thought Experiment. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Patton, Lydia (2019) New Water in Old Buckets: Hypothetical and Counterfactual Reasoning in Mach’s Economy of Science”. Ernst Mach – Life, Work, Influence. ISSN 978-3-030-04377-3

Paul, L. A. (2012) Is our ordinary way of choosing to have children rational? [Preprint]

Peacock, Kent A. (2016) Happiest Thoughts: Great Thought Experiments of Modern Physics. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Pfister, Rolf (2023) Conditionals, Insignificant Relevance, and Inferentialism. [Preprint]

Plutynski, A (2011) In Defense of Rationalist Science. Science at the Frontiers: Perspectives on the History and Philosophy of Science. pp. 35-51.

Poellinger, Roland (2013) Unboxing the Concepts in Newcomb’s Paradox: Causation, Prediction, Decision in Causal Knowledge Patterns. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Poliseli, Luana (2020) The emergence of scientific understanding in current ecological research practice. [Preprint]

Potters, Jan and Leuridan, Bert (2017) Studying Scientific Thought Experiments in Their Context: Albert Einstein and Electromagnetic Induction. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 58. pp. 1-11. ISSN 1355-2198

Przywara, Pawel (2006) 'Husserl's and Carnap's Theories of Space'. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Pérez Otero, Manuel (2017) Theories of Reference, Experimental Philosophy, and the Calibration of Intuitions. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 32 (1). pp. 41-62. ISSN 2171-679X

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Reagan, Andy (2009) Does the Rational Theory of Addiction Suffer Explanatory Impotence? In: UNSPECIFIED.

Richmond, Andrew (2023) What really lives in the swamp? Kinds and the illustration of scientific reasoning. [Preprint]

Rohwer, Forest and Barott, Katie (2012) Viral Information. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Salimkhani, Kian (2019) Explaining Unification in Physics Internally. Synthese. ISSN 1573-0964

Salis, Fiora and Frigg, Roman (2017) Capturing the Scientific Imagination. [Preprint]

Salis, Fiora and Nguyen, James and Frigg, Roman (2020) Models and Denotation. Abstract Objects: For and Against. pp. 197-219.

Sarma, Gopal (2016) Reductionism and the Universal Calculus. [Preprint]

Sarma, Gopal P. (2015) Reconsidering Written Language. Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 13 (3). pp. 397-404.

Sartori, Lorenzo (2022) Putting the ‘Experiment’ back into the ‘Thought Experiment’. Synthese, 201 (34). ISSN 1573-0964

Scheyer, Peter (2019) Corrupting Effectiveness: Utilitarianism and Moral Impartiality toward Future Persons in Pragmatic Evaluation of Altruistic Interventions. [Preprint]

Schindler, Samuel and Saint-Germier, Pierre (2019) Are thought experiments “disturbing”? The case of armchair physics. [Preprint]

Schlaepfer, Guillaume and Weber, Marcel (2018) Thought Experiments in Biology. [Preprint]

Schmidt, Stephen J. (2020) Resources and the acceptability of the Repugnant Conclusion. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 35 (1). pp. 113-128. ISSN 2171-679X

Schrenk, Markus Andreas (2004) Galileo vs Aristotle on Free Falling Bodies. UNSPECIFIED.

Seevinck, M.P. (2008) Parts and Wholes. An Inquiry into Quantum and Classical Correlations. [Preprint]

Shanahan, Daniel (2014) A Case for Lorentzian Relativity. Foundations of Physics, 44. pp. 349-367. ISSN 0015-9018

Shanahan, Daniel (2014) A Case for Lorentzian Relativity. Foundations of Physics, 44. pp. 349-367. ISSN 0015-9018

Shanahan, Daniel (2015) The de Broglie Wave as Evidence of a Deeper Wave Structure. [Preprint]

Shenker, Orly R. and Hemmo, Meir (2006) Maxwell's Demon. [Preprint]

Shenker, Orly R. and Hemmo, Meir (2006) Von Neumann's Entropy Does Not Correspond to Thermodynamic Entropy. UNSPECIFIED.

Slezak, Peter (2013) Realizing Newcomb's Problem. [Preprint]

Solomon, Monica (2022) Newton's Example of the Two Globes. [Preprint]

Stamenkovic, Philippe (2023) On the (lack of) usefulness of professional philosophy of science. [Preprint]

Star, Sarah (2009) Revisiting Ontology and Its Consequences. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Starikova, Irina and Giaquinto, Marcus (2016) THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS IN MATHEMATICS. [Preprint]

Stoica, Ovidiu Cristinel (2008) Convergence and free-will. [Preprint]

Stuart, Michael T. (2017) How Thought Experiments Increase Understanding. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Stuart, Michael T. (2020) The Material Theory of Induction and the Epistemology of Thought Experiments. [Preprint]

Stuart, Michael T. (2020) The Productive Anarchy of Scientific Imagination. [Preprint]

Stuart, Michael T. (2022) Scientists are Epistemic Consequentialists about Imagination. [Preprint]

Stuart, Michael T. (2022) Sharpening the tools of imagination. [Preprint]

Stuart, Michael T. (2021) Telling Stories in Science: Feyerabend and Thought Experiments. [Preprint]

Stuart, Michael T. (2019) Towards a dual process epistemology of imagination. [Preprint]

Stuart, Michael T. and Fehige, Yiftach (2021) Motivating the History of the Philosophy of Thought Experiments. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 11. pp. 212-221.

Stuart, Michael T. and Fehige, Yiftach and Brown, James R. (2018) Thought Experiments: State of the Art. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Stuart, Michael T. and Sargeant, Hannah (2023) Inclusivity in the Education of Scientific Imagination. [Preprint]

Stuart, Michael T. and Sargeant, Hannah (2024) The Role of Imagination in Making Water from Moon Rocks: How Scientists Use Imagination to Break Constraints on Imagination. [Preprint]

Suárez, Mauricio (2009) Fictions, Inference, and Realism. [Preprint]

Suárez, Mauricio (2009) Scientific Representation. [Preprint]

Suárez, Mauricio (2015) Scientific Representation, Denotation, and Fictional Entities. [Preprint]

Suárez, Mauricio (2010) Fictions, Inference, and Realism. [Preprint]

Sytsma, Justin and Livengood, Jonathan (2010) A New Perspective Concerning Experiments on Semantic Intuitions. [Preprint]

Sękowski, Krzysztof (2022) Concept Revision, Concept Application and the Role of Intuitions in Gettier Cases. [Preprint]

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Tappenden, Paul (2011) A Metaphysics for Semantic Internalism. [Preprint]

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Vaas, Ruediger (2006) Dark Energy And Life's Ultimate Future. UNSPECIFIED.

Vaidman, Lev (2001) Sleeping Beauty in Quantumland. Quantum Theory: Reconsidereation of Foundations, , A. Khrennikov, (ed). . pp. 408-412.

Vaidman, Lev (2020) There is no new problem for quantum mechanics: a comment on Meehan (2020). [Preprint]

Vaidman, Lev (2021) Wave function realism and three dimensions. [Preprint]

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Walter, Scott A. (2018) Figures of light in the early history of relativity (1905-1914). Beyond Einstein: Perspectives on Geometry, Gravitation, and Cosmology in the Twentieth Century (Einstein Studies 14). pp. 3-50.

Weinert, Friedel (2016) Hypothetical, not Fictional Worlds. Kairos, Journal of Philosophy of Science, 17 (1). pp. 110-136. ISSN 1647-659X

Weinstein, Galina (2022) Maxwell’s demon and impossibility statements: Einstein on perpetuum mobile of the second kind. [Preprint]

Weinstein, Galina (2023) Navigating the Conjectural Labyrinth of the Black Hole Information Paradox. [Preprint]

Weinstein, Galina (2023) Reframing the Event Horizon: The Harlow-Hayden Computational Approach to the Firewall Paradox. [Preprint]

Wiltsche, Harald A. (2016) Phenomenology and Thought Experiments. Thought Experiments as Anticipation Pumps. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Zilhão, António (2012) Moore's Problem. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Zuradzki, Tomasz (2014) Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and rational choice under risk or uncertainty. Journal of Medical Ethics, 40 (11). pp. 774-778. ISSN 1473-4257

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