Thought experiments in methodological and historical contexts / edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou, Sophie Roux.

"This book is the distant outcome of a workshop on thought experiments that took place in Athens in April 2007"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the emergence of the notion of thought experiments / Sophie Roux -- Remarks on the history of an ancient thought experiment / Katerina Ierodiakonou -- Thought experiments in the De anima commentaries / Peter Lautner -- Thought experiments in late medieval debates on atomism / Christophe Grellard -- Thought experiments and indirect proofs in Averroes, Aquinas, and Buridan / Simo Knuuttila and Taneli Kukkonen -- Galileo`s use of medieval thought experiments / Carla Rita Palmerino -- On Kant`s critique of thought experiments in early modern philosophy / Stelios Virvidakis -- Philosophical thought experiments : in or out of the armchair? / Pascal Engel -- On the very idea of a thought experiment / Jean-Yves Goffi and Sophie Roux -- Thought experiments and mental simulations / John Zeimbekis.