A Minimalist Framework for Thought Experiment Analysis
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/organon/?q=sk/minimalist-framework-thought-experiment-analysis" target="_blank" >http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/organon/?q=sk/minimalist-framework-thought-experiment-analysis</a>
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A Minimalist Framework for Thought Experiment Analysis
Original language description
Thought experiments are frequently vague and obscure hypothetical scenarios that are difficult to assess. The paper proposes a simple model of thought experiments. In the first part, I introduce two contemporary frameworks for thought experiment analysis: an experimentalist approach that relies on similarities between real and thought experiment, and a reasonist approach focusing on the answers provided by thought experimenting. Further, I articulate a minimalist approach in which thought experiment is considered strictly as doxastic mechanism based on imagination. I introduce the basic analytical tool that allows us to differentiate an experimental core from an attached argumentation. The last section is reserved for discussion. I address several possible questions concerning adequacy of minimalistic definition and analysis.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Organon F
ISSN
1335-0668
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
23
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
SK - SLOVAKIA
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
503-524
UT code for WoS article
000389960700005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85006049427