This impressive debut novel, longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, takes its premise and inspiration from ten of the best-known thought experiments in philosoph

This book offers a readable introduction to the main aspects of thought experimenting in philosophy and science (together with related imaginative activities in

Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play centr

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By analysing thought experiments from various periods in the history of philosophy and science, the essays in this volume seek to clarify how thought experiment