Method
Thought experiment
Overview
considering hypothesis, theory, or principle for the purpose of thinking through its consequences
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Philosophers who discussed Thought experiment
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Avicenna
- John Rawls
- Harry Frankfurt
- John Searle
- Twin Earth thought experiment
- Jean Buridan
- Frank Cameron Jackson
- Alexandre Koyré
- David Chalmers
- Donald Davidson (philosopher)
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Imre Lakatos
- Tyler Burge
- Amartya Sen
- Bernard Williams
- Hilary Putnam
- Alexander Rosenberg
- Joel Feinberg
- Philip Goff (philosopher)
- Tamar Gendler
- Frances Kamm
Related ideas
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Avicenna
- Artificial intelligence
- General relativity
- G. K. Chesterton
- John Rawls
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Philosophy
- Carl Gustav Hempel
- Abraham
- John Searle
- John Locke
- Original position
- Twin Earth thought experiment
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
- Latin
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Quantum indeterminacy
- Functionalism (philosophy of mind)
- Theoretical physics
- Niels Bohr
- Reductio ad absurdum
- Physics
- Plato
Place in the tradition
Part of Agnosticism.