"This book is the distant outcome of a workshop on thought experiments that took place in Athens in April 2007"--Acknowledgements.
Introduction : the emergence of the notion of thought experiments / Sophie Roux
Remarks on the history of an ancient thought experiment / Katerina Ierodiakonou
Thought experiments in the De anima commentaries / Peter Lautner
Thought experiments in late medieval debates on atomism / Christophe Grellard
Thought experiments and indirect proofs in Averroes, Aquinas, and Buridan / Simo Knuuttila and Taneli Kukkonen
Galileo's use of medieval thought experiments / Carla Rita Palmerino
On Kant's critique of thought experiments in early modern philosophy / Stelios Virvidakis
Philosophical thought experiments : in or out of the armchair? / Pascal Engel
On the very idea of a thought experiment / Jean-Yves Goffi and Sophie Roux
Thought experiments and mental simulations / John Zeimbekis.
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