Title: Analytic philosophy and the intuition pump: the uses and abuses of thought experiments
Abstract: Let us begin with an example, perhaps the most famous (or infamous) piece of science-fiction in recent analytic philosophy. Putnam asks us to suppose the existence somewhere in the galaxy of the planet Twin Earth, which is exactly like Earth except that the role of water – the clear colourless liquid that falls in rain, fills oceans and so on – is played by a different chemical (dubbed “XYZ”) instead of H2O. And here is the business end of what follows:
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-10-31
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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