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Mental models and thought experiments

Pages 215-226 | Published online: 09 Jun 2008

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Alfonso Muñoz-Corcuera. (2017) Thought experiments in personal identity: A dialogue with Beck, Wagner and Wilkes. South African Journal of Philosophy 36:4, pages 456-469.
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Michael T. Stuart & Yiftach Fehige. (2021) Motivating the History of the Philosophy of Thought Experiments. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 11:1, pages 212-221.
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Alice Murphy. (2022) Toward a Pluralist Account of the Imagination in Science. Philosophy of Science 87:5, pages 957-967.
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Michael T. Stuart. (2020) The material theory of induction and the epistemology of thought experiments. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 83, pages 17-27.
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James Robert Brown. (2006) The Promise and Perils of Thought Experiments. Interchange 37:1-2, pages 63-75.
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Aspasia S. Moue, Kyriakos A. Masavetas & Haido Karayianni. (2006) Tracing the Development of Thought Experiments in the Philosophy of Natural Sciences. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 37:1, pages 61-75.
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