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@article{937593, author = {Picha, Marek}, article_location = {Bratislava}, article_number = {č. 2}, keywords = {argumentative reconstruction; eliminativism; epistemic power; Galileo; thought experiment}, language = {eng}, issn = {1335-0668}, journal = {Organon F}, title = {How to Reconstruct a Thought Experiment}, volume = {roč. 18}, year = {2011} }
TY - JOUR ID - 937593 AU - Picha, Marek PY - 2011 TI - How to Reconstruct a Thought Experiment JF - Organon F VL - roč. 18 IS - č. 2 SP - 154-188 EP - 154-188 PB - Filosofický ústav SAV, Filosofický ústav AVČR SN - 13350668 KW - argumentative reconstruction KW - eliminativism KW - epistemic power KW - Galileo KW - thought experiment N2 - The paper is a contribution to the debate on the epistemological status of thought experiments. I deal with the epistemological uniqueness of experiments in the sense of their irreducibility to other sources of justification. In particular, I criticize an influential argument for the irreducibility of thought experiments to general arguments. First, I introduce the radical empiricist theory of eliminativism, which considers thought experiments to be rhetorically modified arguments, uninteresting from the epistemological point of view. Second, I present objections to the theory, focusing on the critique of eliminativism by Tamar Szabó Gendler based on the reconstruction of famous Galileo's Pisa experiment. I show that her reconstruction is simplistic and that more elaborate reconstruction is needed for an appropriate assessment of the epistemic power of general argument. I propose such a reconstruction and demonstrate that general version of Pisa experiment is epistemically equal to the particular one. Thus, from an epistemological perspective, Galileo's thought experiment is reducible to a straightforward argument without particular premises. ER -
PICHA, Marek. How to Reconstruct a Thought Experiment. \textit{Organon F}. Bratislava: Filosofický ústav SAV, Filosofický ústav AVČR, 2011, roč. 18, č. 2, s.~154-188. ISSN~1335-0668.
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