Towards a Pluralistic Account of Thought Experiments.

In light of our knowledge about neurodiversity, I argue that the cognitive science framework Miščević uses in Thought Experiments must be broaden to create a pluralistic account of thought experimentation, one able to account for the many ways thought experiments are replicated using not only visual...

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Published in:Philosophia Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 595 - 604
Main Author: Frappier, Mélanie
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Published: Springer Nature Jul2024
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