Hans-Christian Orsted introduced the term" thought experiment" to philosophy in 1811,
although it did not get much philosophical attention until the 1980s. Thought experiments …

Science Teaching explains how history and philosophy of science contributes to the
resolution of persistent theoretical, curricular, and pedagogical issues in science education …

While discussions of the imagination have been limited in philosophy of science, this is
beginning to change. In recent years, a vast literature on imagination in science has …

Conceptual change research investigates the processes through which learners
substantially revise prior knowledge and acquire new concepts. Tracing its heritage to …

An account that analyzes the dynamic reasoning processes implicated in a fundamental
problem of creativity in science: how does genuine novelty emerge from existing …

Naturalism is a general program for all of philosophy, including ethics, the philosophy of
language and mind, epistemology, and the philosophy of science. There are some general …

Newton's bucket, Einstein's elevator, Schrödinger's cat–these are some of the best-known
examples of thought experiments in the natural sciences. But what function do these …

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In By Parallel Reasoning Paul Bartha proposes a normative theory of analogical arguments
and raises questions and proposes answers regarding (i.) criteria for evaluating analogical …

Feynman diagrams have revolutionized nearly every aspect of theoretical physics since the
middle of the twentieth century. Introduced by the American physicist Richard Feynman …