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What If? Thought Experimentation in Philosophy.

What If? Thought Experimentation in Philosophy

by Nicholas Rescher. Transaction Publishers. 2005. 189 pages. $49.95.

The question "what if" expresses the core philosophy of prospective thinking. The author, a professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, provides

a complete overview of the principles of philosophical inquiry, the Socratic method, and the importance of thought experimentation not only to the field of philosophy, but also to science and history. What If? will be of interest to philosophers, students of philosophy, theorists of logic and reasoning, and anyone who has ever thought of the future as a frontier of possibility.

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