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Do Thought Experiments have a Life of Their Own? Comments on James Brown, Nancy Nersessian and David Gooding
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 June 2023
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I believe that thought experiments do not have a life of their own. The tide of opinion is going the other way. That is evident from the ample citations provided by our three speakers. They include for example the outstanding collection ofpapers, edited by Tamara Horowitz and Gerald Massey (1991) with its wonderful editorial introduction that really does say what is in each paper. There are David Gooding's chapters (1990, chs. 8-10) on the relationships between Faraday's thought experiments and real experiments. There is James Brown's book (1991).
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- Part IX. Thought Experiments: The Theoretician's Laboratory
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