Wittgenstein's beetle and other classic thought experiments
By: Martin Cohen
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Thought experiments
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: A is for Alice and astronomers arguing about acceleration in a hole through the earth; title: B is for Bernard's body-exchange machine; title: C is for the Catholic cannibal; title: D is for Maxwell's demon; title: E is for evolution (and an embarrassing problem with it); title: F is for the forms lost forever to the prisoners in the cave; title: G is for Galileo's gravitational balls; title: H is for Hume's shades; title: I is for the identity of indiscernibles; title: J is for Henri Poincaré and alternative geometries; title: K is for the Kritik and Kant's kind of thought experiments; title: L is for Lucretius' spear; title: M is for Mach's motionless chain; title: N is for Newton's bucket; title: O is for Olbers' paradox; title: P is for Parfit's person; title: Q is for the questions raised by thought experiments quotidiennes; title: R is for the rule-ruled room; title: S is for Salvatius' ship, proceeding serenely along its own space-time line; title: T is for the time-travelling twins; title: U is for the universe, and Einstein's attempts to understand it; title: V is for the vexed case of the needy violinist; title: W is for Wittgenstein's beetle; title: X is for xenophanes and thinking by examples; title: Y is for counterfactuals and a backwards approach to history; title: Z is for Zeno and the mysteries of infinity