Brown James Robert - The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments

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Richard T. W. Arthur is a professor of Philosophy at McMaster University. He specializes in early-modern natural philosophy and mathematics, with special attention to Leibniz, Newton and Descartes. His research interests also include the theory of time, the infinite and the epistemology of science, especially thought experiments. He has a book manuscript on Leibnizs theory of substance on the verge of publication and he is currently finishing a book defending the reality of becoming in modern physics. Books include G. W. Leibniz: The Labyrinth of the Continuum (2001), Leibniz (2014) and Introduction to Logic (2017).

Alexander Becker is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Marburg. His interests include philosophy of language, metaphysics, ancient philosophy and aesthetics. On Plato, he has published an introduction to the Theaetetus (2008). An introduction to the Republic is forthcoming (2017).

Alisa Bokulich is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University and Director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, where she organizes the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science. She is an associate member of Harvard Universitys History of Science Department and a Series Editor for Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science . She is author of Reexamining the Quantum-Classical Relation: Beyond Reductionism and Pluralism , and her research focuses on scientific models and explanations in the physical sciences, including, more recently, the geosciences.

Elke Brendel is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Bonn, Germany. She has published numerous books and articles on topics in logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, and meta-philosophy. Besides her interest in thought experiments, she has mainly worked on logical and semantic paradoxes, theories of truth and knowledge, epistemic contextualism and relativism, and the semantics of disagreement.

James Robert Brown is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His interests include thought experiments, foundational issues in mathematics and physics, visual reasoning, and issues involving science and society, such as the role of commercialization in medical research. His books include The Rational and the Social (1989), The Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments in the Natural Sciences (1991/2010), Smoke and Mirrors: How Science Reflects Reality (1994), Philosophy of Mathematics: An Introduction to the World of Proofs and Pictures (1999/2008), Who Rules in Science: A Guide to the Wars (2001), Platonism, Naturalism and Mathematical Knowledge (2012) and others.

Georg Brun is a research fellow in philosophy at the University of Bern. He has a special interest in methodological issues, particularly in epistemology, argumentation theory, philosophy of logic and metaethics. He is the author of The Right Formula: Problems of Logical Formalization (2004 in German) and co-editor of Epistemology and Emotions (2008).

Marco Buzzoni is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Macerata and Co-editor of Epistemologia, a special issue of Axiomathes . His main fields of research include Poppers and Kuhns philosophy of science, science and technology, epistemology and methodology of human and social sciences, thought experiment in the natural sciences, and philosophy of biology. He is the author of Thought Experiment in the Natural Sciences (2008).

Daniel Cohnitz is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Utrecht University. He is the author of Gedankenexperimente in der Philosophie (2006) and numerous articles on thought experiments and other topics in theoretical philosophy. His current research focuses on metaphilosophy, philosophy of language and logic, and epistemology.

Klaus Corcilius is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. His primary interest is ancient philosophy, theoretical and practical, and especially Aristotle. Currently, he is working on Aristotles scientific conception of the soul and human and animal agency. He is co-editor of Partitioning of the Soul in Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy (2014).

David Davies is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. He is the author of Art as Performance (2004), Aesthetics and Literature (2007) and Philosophy of the Performing Arts (Wiley-Blackwell 2011), and editor/co-editor of The Thin Red Line (2008) and Blade Runner (2015). He has published widely on philosophical issues relating to film, photography, performance, music, literature, and visual art and also on issues in metaphysics, philosophy of mind and philosophy of language.

Yiftach Fehige is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His appointment is for the interdisciplinary field of Christianity and science. The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology is his academic home. He has published widely in the major journals in his field. Among the most recent publications is an edited volume on science and religion as it relates to the encounter between East and West (Routledge 2016).

Mlanie Frappier is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Kings College, Halifax, Canada. She works on the role of thought experiments in physics and has co-edited Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts with Letitia Meynell and James R. Brown.

Marcus Giaquinto is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at University College London. His research falls mostly in philosophy of mathematics. He is the author of two books, The Search for Certainty: A Philosophical Account of Foundations of Mathematics (2002) and Visual Thinking in Mathematics: An Epistemological Study (2007). He is currently working on the philosophy of number with attention to relevant findings in the cognitive sciences.

Jean-Yves Goffi is Professor Emeritus at the Universit Grenoble-Alpes. He has published in applied ethics, philosophy of technology and history of philosophy. He is currently working on the transhumanist movement and its relation to utopian thought.