Title: Thought Experiments and Its Epistemic Questions
Abstract: There are varieties of thought experiments both in natural science and in philosophy.Nevertheless,even thought experiments are admittedly valid,there are still such epistemic questions as how they can let us gain new knowledge about world while dispensing with experiential inputs,and as how new knowledge can be justified.In this article,the author argues that thought experiments on the one hand reify the logic of discovery,thus let us gain new knowledge via helping us validly recomposing old experience;on the other hand,they are valid just because they can be reformed to sound arguments.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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