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Starting with Galileo's argument on falling bodies, Brown describes many of the most influential examples. A pro-rationalist, anti- empiricist work. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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One wishes to thank author Brown (regrettably identified only as "Professor" on the inside dust jacket, no further academic pedigree provided) for writing a cogent, lively, enthusiastic book on the engaging and philosophically influential subject of thought experiments those powerful, elegant, and profound deductive exercises of mind favored by the likes of Galileo and Einstein, among others, that seem to make it possible to predict a priori some properties of the empirical world. One wishes to thank him again for promulgating an unfashionably platonic, or realist, interpretation of thought experiments, and thus taking on those philosophers of science for whom truth is not merely an ever more elusive entity, but a completely relative one as well. Brown's well-written book recounts the most celebrated examples of thought experiments through the ages, and concludes with a platonic interpretation of quantum mechanics to replace the generally accepted Copenhagen Interpretation and its variants. The EPR paradox, Bell's Theorem, and the experiments of aspect form part of the discussion. A wonderfully stimulating book, highly recommended. (A PS to the publisher: many, perhaps a third, of the page numbers in the index are incorrect.)-M. Schiff, College of Staten Island, CUNY