The Thought Experimental Method: Avicenna's Flying Man Argument
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DOI: 10.1017/apa.2018.2
Abstract: Abstract No argument from the Arabic philosophical tradition has received more scholarly attention than Avicenna's ‘flying man’ thought experiment, in which a human is created out of thin air and is able to grasp his… read more here.
Keywords: argument; man; avicenna flying; thought experimental ... See more keywords
The Flying and the Masked Man, One More Time: Comments on Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich, ‘The Thought Experimental Method: Avicenna's Flying Man Argument’
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DOI: 10.1017/apa.2019.52
Abstract: Abstract This is a critical comment on Adamson and Benevich (2018), published in issue 4/2 of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association. I raise two closely related objections. The first concerns the objective of… read more here.
Keywords: man one; argument; flying masked; man ... See more keywords
Flying Man: Hugo Junkers and the Dream of Aviation by Richard Byers (review)
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DOI: 10.1353/tech.2019.0045
Abstract: 637 The next two chapters, about women motorcyclists and sexuality, likewise note contestation and differentiation. “[Female] motorists during the Weimar Republic both challenged and reproduced gender stereotypes,” Disko writes. “Their voices and positions were not… read more here.
Keywords: dream aviation; aviation richard; junkers dream; flying man ... See more keywords