What are we to think about thought experiments?

Argumentation

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 203-217

  Souder, Lawrence ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogy; Argument; Chinese Room; Gendankenexperiment; Hypothetical; Narrative; Philosophy of mind; Rhetoric; Thought experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750176641     PISSN: 0920427X     EISSN: 15728374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024071710337     Document Type: Article

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