Thought Experiments

Nenad Miscevic is Professor of philosophy at the Philosophical faculty in Maribor, Slovenia, and has been, until this year, Regular Visiting Professor at Central European University Budapest. He also taught as guest professor at Universities of Geneva, Trieste and Klagenfurt. He studied philosophy in Zagreb, Chicago, Paris and Ljubljana, where he defended his doctorate thesis. He has been President of European Society of Analytic Philosophy and has held presidential functions in philosophical societies of his home country.He has published a number of books in Croatian and three books in English, two in semantics and one in political philosophy and has been contributing to volumes on thought experiments, most recently to the Routledge Handbook of Thought experiments.

• Introduction: What are thought experiments?.- The main characteristics: stages of experiments, their role in science in philosophy, their closest relatives.- Uderstanding the thought experiments: empiricist, Platonist and inferentialist  proposals, the mental modelling as alternative.- The challenge of experimental philosophy.- Understanding the history of influential though-experiments.- Conclusion.