Hopp, Walter (Author)
Perspectives on Science
Volume: 22, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 242-263
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Thought Experiments”
Language: English
What are thought experiments, and how do they generate knowledge? More specifically, what sorts of intentional acts must one perform in order to carry out a thought experiment, what sorts of objects are such acts directed toward, and how are those objects made present in such acts? I argue on phenomenological grounds that the proper objects of thought experiments are, in certain cases, uninstantiated universals and relations among them. I will also argue that, in the best of cases, we intuit or see these universals and their relations to one another, and respond to some objections to this view.
...MoreArticle Fehige, Yiftach; Stuart, Michael T. (2014) On the Origins of the Philosophy of Thought Experiments: The Forerun. Perspectives on Science (pp. 179-220).
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