The Power of Thought Experiments

Foundations of Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 467-482

  Schlesinger, George N ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 0030538141     PISSN: 00159018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02071216     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Thought Experiments in Science and Philosophy, T. Horowitz and G. J. Massey, eds. (Rowman & Littlefield, Savage, North Dakota, 1991); henceforth TESP.
2. P. Davies, God and the New Physics, (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1983), p. 136.
3. E. Nagel, The Structure of Physics (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1961), p. 282.
4. G. Gamow, The Biography of Physics, (Harper & Row, New York, 1961), p. 114.
5. Davis. op. cit., p. 212.
6. "Ueber der Zustand des Warmegleichtgewichtes Eines System von Korpern," Sitzungberichte, p. 135.
7. TESP, p. 113.
8. TESP, p. 209.
9. T. Kuhn, The Essential Tension (The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1977), p. 241.
10. TESP, p. 256.
11. R. Sorensen, Thought Experiments (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992), p. 82.