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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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182The 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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19Atheism vs. Atheism in the Encounter Between Science and ReligionPhilosophy, Theology and the Sciences 6 (2): 183. 2019.
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19Gedankenexperimente in der Offenbarungstheologie?Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 59 (1). 2011.
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19In What Sense Exactly Did Christianity Give Us Racial Science?Zygon 54 (1): 230-236. 2019.In my contribution to the interdisciplinary discussion of Terence Keel's study on the Christian roots of modern racial science, I focus on its philosophical assumptions and implications. My primary concern is to relate the findings of this study to recent appraisals of the philosophical notion of a secularized Western modernity. I raise a twofold question: in what sense can one say that traditional Christianity links intimately to modern racial science, and which historiographical decisions info…Read more
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900The Body, Thought Experiments, and PhenomenologyIn Yiftach J. H. Fehige & Harald Wiltsche (eds.), Thought Experiments in Philosophy, Science, and the Arts, . 2012.An explorative contribution to the ongoing discussion of thought experiments. While endorsing the majority view that skepticism about thought experiments is not well justified, in what follows we attempt to show that there is a kind of “bodiliness” missing from current accounts of thought experiments. That is, we suggest a phenomenological addition to the literature. First, we contextualize our claim that the importance of the body in thought experiments has been widely underestimated. Then we d…Read more
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102On the Origins of the Philosophy of Thought Experiments: The ForerunPerspectives on Science 22 (2): 179-220. 2014.Philosophical debate about the nature and function of thought experiments would be impoverished without good historical sources. And while valuable work is being done on the history of thought experiments, a comprehensive discussion of the history of philosophical investigation into thought experiments is still absent in the literature (but see Kühne 2005; Moue et al. 2006). In what follows we take the first steps towards providing a more complete picture of the diverse attempts to shed light on…Read more
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45Introduction to Special Issue of Perspectives on SciencePerspectives on Science 22 (2): 167-178. 2014.This is an introduction to a special issue of Perspectives on Science, the outcome of a workshop entitled "Thought Experiments in Science: Four Blind Spots," held at the University of Toronto, March 23rd, 2012. The recent revival in philosophical study of thought experiments has been limited to fields like epistemology, science studies, and metaphilosophy. With this issue we hope to facilitate a discussion about how some other disciplinary perspectives might bear on the subject; specifically, th…Read more
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1251Thought Experiments: State of the ArtIn Michael T. Stuart, Yiftach Fehige & James Robert Brown (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments, Routledge. pp. 1-28. 2018.This is the introduction to the Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments
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21Moving Further Beyond Secularism: A “Lutheran” Reading of the Cosmology of Thomas NagelNeue Zeitschrift für Systematicsche Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 60 (2): 229-254. 2018.Name der Zeitschrift: Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie Jahrgang: 60 Heft: 2 Seiten: 229-254.
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57Thought Experimenting with God. Revisiting the Ontological ArgumentNeue Zeitschrift für Systematicsche Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 51 (3): 249-267. 2009.The ontological argument is one of the most intriguing lines of reasoning in Western thought. Leaving behind debates over the proper relation between science and religion, it makes a simple move from conceptual analysis to existence in order to prove the existence of god. The ontological argument will be reviewed against the background of the contemporary debate on thought experiments. Assuming that the ontological argument fails as a philosophical proof, I will argue that its move from concept …Read more
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1669Hilary Putnam. Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Lévinas, Wittgenstein. Indiana University Press, 2008European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 1 (2): 139--143. 2009.
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Gottesbeweis oder Gedankenexperiment christlicher Theologie? Zu Dombrowskis Verteidigung des ontologischen ArgumentsJahrbuch für Religionsphilosophie 8. 2009.
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27Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of FaithAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 81 (4): 674-677. 2007.
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24Review of: O. Gingerich: God’s Universe (review)History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 11 232-234. 2008.
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27Wessen Wille geschehe? Fremdnützige Forschung an Nichteinwilligungsfähigen. Die Argumente in der philosophischen KritikZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 58 (3). 2004.Drei Argumente scheinen insgesamt zur Bewältigung des akuten medizinethischen Problems der fremdnützigen Forschung an Nichteinwilligungsfähigen im Umlauf zu sein: Das Autonomieargument und das Innovationsforschungsfreiheitsargument , mit denen eine Berechtigung herbeizuführen versucht wird, als auch das Menschenwürdeargument , das dem Verbot dienen soll. AA hat nach wie vor den größten Einfluss in der Debatte um PfFN. Nach einer knappen Skizze des Ausmaßes von dem angemeldeten Bedarf an fremdnüt…Read more
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The art of dialogue and the Christian-Jewish encounter. A first approach – L. Rodriguez Duplá: Gotteserkenntnis und natürliche Religion bei Max SchelerJahrbuch für Religionsphilosophie 9. 2010.
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University of Toronto, St. George CampusAssociate Professor
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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