McGinnis, Jon (2016) Experimental thoughts about thought experiments in medieval Islam. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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The study begins with the language employed in and the psychological basis of thought experiments as understood by certain medieval Arabic philosophers. It then provides a taxonomy of different kinds of thoughts experiments used in the medieval Islamic world. These include purely fictional thought experiments, idealizations and finally thought experiments using ingenious machines. The study concludes by suggesting that thought experiments provided a halfway house during this period between a staunch rationalism and an emerging empiricism.
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| Keywords: | Medieval Islam Thought experiments History of science Avicenna | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Thought Experiments |
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| Depositing User: | Jon McGinnis | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2016 01:52 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2016 01:52 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 12391 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Thought Experiments |
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| Date: | 2016 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12391 |
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