时间：6月17日 下午3点
地点：华东师范大学闵行校区人文楼2102会议室
主题：What is a thought experiment?
嘉宾：Sophie Roux教授（法国巴黎高师）
主持：郁振华教授（华东师大哲学系）
演讲摘要：
When I ask myself what would happen if a man who stands at the edge of the universe threw a spear, or what I would do if I had a ring that makes me invisible, I make a thought experiment. But what is thought experimenting? In my talk, I shall begin by recalling some thought experiments. Then I shall characterize thought experiments in general. Finally, I will take a stand in the debate between James Robert Brown, who maintains that thought experimenting is experiencing another world, and John Norton, who argues that thought experiment is dealing with an argument presented under the disguise of a pleasant story.
嘉宾简介：
Sophie Roux is Professor at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris. She studied philosophy in Paris (ENS; agrégation de philosophie) and took her Ph.D from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (1996). Since then, she was appointed at Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Berlin), at the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (Paris) and at the University of Grenoble-II; she has been a Junior Fellow at the Institut universitaire de France as well. She works in history and philosophy of science, with an emphasis on various aspects of natural philosophy in the Early Modern period. Among her publications are Mechanics and Cosmology (co-edited with M. Bucciantini and M. Camerota, 2007), Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution (co-edited with W. R. Laird, 2008), Thought Experiments in Historical and Methodological Contexts (co-edited with K. Ierodiakonou, 2011), La mathématisation comme problème (co-edited with H. Chabot, 2011), L’Essai de logique de Mariotte. Archéologie des idées d’un savant ordinaire (2011), The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy (co-edited with D. Garber, 2012), L’automate. Machine, métaphore, modèle, merveille (co-edited with A. Gaillard, J.-Y. Goffi et B. Roukhomovsky, 2012), Louis Couturat (1868-1914). Mathématiques, Langage, Philosophie (co-edited with M. Fichant, 2015). In collaboration with Egidio Festa, she is currently working on a critical edition, translation and commentary of Galileo’s Le Mecaniche.
