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Thought Experiments in Methodological and Historical Contexts History of Science and Medicine Library VOLUME19 Medieval and Early Modern Science Editors J.M.M.H.Thijssen,RadboudUniversityNijmegen C.H. Lüthy,RadboudUniversityNijmegen EditorialConsultants Joël Biard,UniversityofTours Simo Knuuttila,UniversityofHelsinki Jürgen Renn,Max-Planck-InstitutefortheHistoryofScience Theo Verbeek,UniversityofUtrecht VOLUME15 Thought Experiments in Methodological and Historical Contexts Editedby Katerina Ierodiakonou Sophie Roux LEIDEN•BOSTON 2011 Coverillustration:CamilleFlammarion,L’atmosphère:météorologiepopulaire(1888). Anonymouswoodcut.ColorizationbyFrédéricSchmitt. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Thoughtexperimentsinmethodologicalandhistoricalcontexts/editedbyKaterina Ierodiakonou,SophieRoux. p.cm.–(Historyofscienceandmedicinelibrary,ISSN1872-0684;v.19)(Medievaland earlymodernscience;v.15) "Thisbookisthedistantoutcomeofaworkshoponthoughtexperimentsthattookplacein AthensinApril2007"–Acknowledgements. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-90-04-20176-7(hardcover:alk.paper) 1.Thoughtexperiments–History–Congresses.I.Ierodiakonou,Katerina.II.Roux,Sophie. III.Title.IV.Series. BD265.T462011 190–dc22 2011011640 ISSN 1872-0684 ISBN 9789004201767 Copyright2011byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,GlobalOriental,HoteiPublishing, IDCPublishers,MartinusNijhoffPublishersandVSP. 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CONTENTS Acknowledgements.................................................... vii ListofContributors.................................................... ix Introduction:TheEmergenceoftheNotionofThought Experiments......................................................... 1 SophieRoux PARTONE HISTORICALUSESOFTHOUGHTEXPERIMENTS RemarksontheHistoryofanAncientThoughtExperiment ........ 37 KaterinaIerodiakonou ThoughtExperimentsintheDeAnimaCommentaries.............. 51 PeterLautner ThoughtExperimentsinLateMedievalDebatesonAtomism....... 65 ChristopheGrellard PARTTWO THEPOSSIBILITYOFTHOUGHTEXPERIMENTS ThoughtExperimentsandIndirectProofsinAverroes,Aquinas, andBuridan......................................................... 83 SimoKnuuttilaandTaneliKukkonen Galileo’sUseofMedievalThoughtExperiments...................... 101 CarlaRitaPalmerino OnKant’sCritiqueofThoughtExperimentsinEarlyModern Philosophy .......................................................... 127 SteliosVirvidakis vi contents PARTTHREE HOWDOTHOUGHTEXPERIMENTSWORK? PhilosophicalThoughtExperiments:InoroutoftheArmchair?.... 145 PascalEngel OntheVeryIdeaofaThoughtExperiment .......................... 165 Jean-YvesGoffiandSophieRoux ThoughtExperimentsandMentalSimulations....................... 193 JohnZeimbekis Bibliography ........................................................... 217 IndexNominum ....................................................... 229 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thisbookisthedistantoutcomeofaworkshoponthoughtexperiments thattookplaceinAthensinApril.Thisworkshop,co-organisedby FransDeHaas,KaterinaIerodiakonouandSophieRoux,waspartofthe programme“FromNaturalPhilosophytoScience”generouslysponsored bytheEuropeanScienceFoundation. Inaddition tothescholarswhose essaysfollowinthisvolume,participantsattheworkshopalsoincluded DionyssisAnapolitanos,HuguesChabot,VassoKindi,GerhardKrieger, Remke Kruk, Inna Kupreeva, Cees Leijenhorst and Chris Martin. We would like to thank the graduate student Ioannis Papachristou for his assistancewiththepracticalitiesofthemeeting. TheAthensworkshopwasfollowedbyaneditorialmeetinginGreno- ble in June , wherea selectionofpapers readin Athensin prelim- inaryform,oncethoroughlyrevised,waskeenly discussed.JohnZeim- bekis kindly agreed to present a paper at this meeting without having beenpresentinAthens.ForherefficiencyinhelpingtoorganiseGreno- ble’seditorialmeeting,wethankLoredanaTruong,administratorofthe group“Philosophie,LangageetCognition”oftheUniversityofGrenoble. Fortheirconstantsupport,wethankHansThijssen,Chairmanofthe programme“FromNaturalPhilosophytoScience,”andCeesLeijenhorst, Coordinatorofthesameprogramme.Finally, thisbookwouldnothave beenpossiblewithoutBirgitKolboske,whohelpedusinthelastphaseof alongeditingprocess. LISTOFCONTRIBUTORS PascalEngel,UniversityofGeneva,Switzerland Jean-YvesGoffi,UniversityofGrenoble,France ChristopheGrellard,UniversityofParisI,France KaterinaIerodiakonou,UniversityofAthens,Greece SimoKnuuttila,UniversityofHelsinki,Finland TaneliKukkonen,UniversityofJyväskylä,Finland PeterLautner,PázmányPéterCatholicUniversity,Hungary CarlaRitaPalmerino,RadboudUniversityNijmegen,TheNetherlands SophieRoux,UniversityofGrenoble,France SteliosVirvidakis,UniversityofAthens,Greece JohnZeimbekis,UniversityofGrenoble,France
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