@article {1328, title = {A Minimalist Framework for Thought Experiment Analysis}, journal = {Organon F}, volume = {23}, number = {4}, year = {2016}, pages = {503-524}, type = {State}, abstract = {Thought experiments are frequently vague and obscure hypothetical scenarios that are difficult to assess. The paper proposes a simple model of thought experiments. In the first part, I introduce two contemporary frameworks for thought experiment analysis: an experimentalist approach that relies on similarities between real and thought experiment, and a reasonist approach focusing on the answers provided by thought experimenting. Further, I articulate a minimalist approach in which thought experiment is considered strictly as doxastic mechanism based on imagination. I introduce the basic analytical tool that allows us to differentiate an experimental core from an attached argumentation. The last section is reserved for discussion. I address several possible questions concerning adequacy of minimalistic definition and analysis.}, keywords = {Experimentalism, Galileo, minimalism, reconstruction, Rescher, thought experiments}, url = {http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2016/4/503-524.pdf}, author = {Picha, Marek} }