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1Nenad Miščević Stays True to Himself!Philosophia 1-8. forthcoming.This is a contribution to a symposium about a book on thought experiments by Nenad Miščević. I argue that it is the first monograph dedicated to a defense of the mental models account of thought experiments. I exemplify the strengths of this account by applying Miščević’s analytical tools to the task of reading the Biblical Book of Job as a theological thought experiment.
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181The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments (edited book)Routledge. 2018.Thought experiments are a means of imaginative reasoning that lie at the heart of philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to the modern era, and they also play central roles in a range of fields, from physics to politics. The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments is an invaluable guide and reference source to this multifaceted subject. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion covers the following important areas: · the history of thought experiments, fro…Read more
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8Thought Experiments, Science, and TheologyBRILL. 2023.This book offers the first study of theological thought experiments. It advances the discussion about the religious significance of the imagination and presents a tightly argued response to debates over pluralism in the history and philosophy of science.
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57Motivating the History of the Philosophy of Thought ExperimentsHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 11 (1): 212-221. 2021.This is the introduction to a special issue of HOPOS on the history of the philosophy of thought experiments.
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28On Thought Experiments, Theology, and Mathematical PlatonismAxiomathes 32 (1): 43-54. 2022.In our contribution to this special issue on thought experiments and mathematics, we aim to insert theology into the conversation. There is a very long tradition of substantial inquiries into the relationship between theology and mathematics. Platonism has been provoking a consolidation of that tradition to some extent in recent decades. Accordingly, in this paper we look at James R. Brown’s Platonic account of thought experiments. Ultimately, we offer an analysis of some of the merits and peril…Read more
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10Owen Gingerich: God’s Universe. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006. ISBN: 978-0674023703; £ 10.95, $ 16.95, EUR17.47 (hardback); 160 pages (review)History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 11 (1): 232-234. 2008.
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19Gedankenexperimente in der Offenbarungstheologie?Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 59 (1). 2011.
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19Atheism vs. Atheism in the Encounter Between Science and ReligionPhilosophy, Theology and the Sciences 6 (2): 183. 2019.
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Gottesbeweis oder Gedankenexperiment christlicher Theologie? Zu Dombrowskis Verteidigung des ontologischen ArgumentsJahrbuch für Religionsphilosophie 8. 2009.
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17Divided by Language, but United in the Imagination?Sophia 61 (1): 61-77. 2022.In my contribution to this special issue, I draw attention to the topic of the imagination at the interface of modern science and Christian theology. The paper entertains in critical perspective the notion that language divides, while the imagination unites. While the paper is intended to be explorative, a clear thesis emerges: in its commitment to consilience, Christian theology is directed to the imagination under the pressure of the pluralizing effects of a reason that is constrained by langu…Read more
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47The Annus Mirabilis of 1986: Thought Experiments and Scientific PluralismHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 11 (1): 222-240. 2021.This paper is about the remarkable explosion in the literature on thought experiments since the 1980s. It enters uncharted territory. The year 1986 is of particular interest: James R. Brown presents his Platonism about thought experiments for the first time in Dubrovnik, and in Pittsburgh John D. Norton shares his empiricist approach with participants in what was probably the 20th century’s very first major conference on thought experiments. It was the time when philosophy of science had taken a…Read more
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13A scientific Jacob’s ladder: Tom McLeish’s natural philosophy: Tom McLeish: The poetry and music of science: comparing creativity in science and art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 384 pp, £25 HB. Tom McLeish: Faith and wisdom in science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, 304 pp, £24.49 HB. £9.99 PBMetascience 29 (2): 319-324. 2020.
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