James Robert Brown is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
If thought experiments have extraordinary powers, then they need an extraordinary epistemology. This book is the only serious attempt to provide it. --John Norton, University of Pittsburgh Praise for the first edition: Cogent, lively, enthusiastic ... A wonderfully stimultating book, highly rcommended --CHOICE I recommend this book to anybody interested in the philosophy of science...a fascinating compendium of these testaments to scientific genius. --David Papineau, Times Higher Education Supplement