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- Title
THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS AND PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE.
- Authors
MACHERY, EDOUARD
- Abstract
While thought experiments play an important role in contemporary analytic philosophy, much remains unclear about thought experiments. In particular, it is still unclear whether the judgments elicited by thought experiments can provide evidence for the premises of philosophical arguments. This article argues that, if an influential and promising view about the nature of the judgments elicited by thought experiments is correct, then many thought experiments in philosophy fail to provide any evidence for the premises of philosophical arguments.
- Subjects
THOUGHT experiments; PHILOSOPHY; SKEPTICISM; INTUITION; EXPERTISE
- Publication
Metaphilosophy, 2011, Vol 42, Issue 3, p191
- ISSN
0026-1068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9973.2011.01700.x