In (Galili, 2009) the author is after a definition, with a goal and a method in mind. The goal is to be able to clarify this thought experimentation “for educational purposes” – having already observed that many of the thought experiments have educational qualities due to their intuitiveness. Searle mentions at the end of his article in Views into the Chinese Room (Searle, 2003) that everyone to whom he has explained his thought experiment was able to understand both its purpose and its logical “mechanism”.
Historical note
Galili starts with two remarks which I find very enlightening. First, he takes a few examples of scientists or philosophers who used thought experiments, or something which subsequently received the label, but named them differently (analogies, paradoxes, imaginary situations etc.) Sometimes, it is unclear whether they are referring to an actual experiment – one to be put into practice – or one for which the results are so clear no implementation is … read more
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