This study describes the design and analysis of an anti‐phase pendulum motion‐based
electromagnetic energy harvester. The proposed energy harvester consists of a magnet …

The aim of this paper was to present reflections on the teaching of physical science using
the topic of projectile motion as a launch pad. It focused on the teaching model and what the …

Computer simulation (CS) and thought experiments (TE) seem to produce knowledge about
the world without intervening in the world. This has called for a comparison between the two …

Thought experiments play an important epistemic, rhetorical, and didactic function in
Galileo's dialogues. In some cases, Salviati, Sagredo, and Simplicio agree about what …

Abstract Thought experiments are fictional narratives that widen our cognitive horizons both
in the sciences and in philosophy. In the present paper we argue that they can perform this …

This article concerns the way in which philosophers study the epistemology of scientific
thought experiments. Starting with a general overview of the main contemporary …

This thesis is a conceptual and epistemological analysis of imagination and scientific
thought experiments. The first part of this thesis deals with the definition and typology of …

This thesis is intended as a contribution to the debate over the relation between everyday
thinking and contemporary science. My main aim is to contribute to a more general debate …

This interdisciplinary thesis (History of Physics/Mathematics, Epistemology of Science,
Nature of Science, Teaching Science) is part of the historical study and teaching of classical …

There have been several changes this year to the Isis Current Bibliography that you are now
reading. To begin with, you will notice immediately that the volume has two parts for the first …