By James Robert Brown
Newton's bucket, Einstein's elevator, Schrödinger's cat – those are a number of the best-known examples of suggestion experiments within the usual sciences. yet what functionality do those experiments practice? Are they honestly experiments in any respect? Can they assist us achieve a better figuring out of the common world? How is it attainable that we will be able to study new issues simply by thinking?
In this revised and up to date re-creation of his vintage textual content The Laboratory of the Mind, James Robert Brown maintains to guard apriorism within the actual international. This variation positive factors new chapters, one on “counter concept experiments” and one other at the improvement of inertial motion. With lots of illustrations and up-to-date assurance of the controversy among Platonic rationalism and vintage empiricism, it is a energetic and fascinating contribution to the sector of philosophy of science.
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