Imagination in science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4080077 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Murphy (0000-0002-3707-6872, Munich School of Philosophy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12836 |
| OpenAlex | W4224295777 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 85 |
While discussions of the imagination have been limited in philosophy of science, this is beginning to change. In recent years, a vast literature on imagination in science has emerged. This paper surveys the current field, including the changing attitudes towards the scientific imagination, the fiction view of models, how the imagination can lead to knowledge and understanding, and the value of different types of imagination. It ends with a discussion of the gaps in the current literature, indicating avenues for future research
Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Imagination · Philosophy of science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology · Science and Climate Studies
To Stay Alive
The moderation role of representational fluency in the effect of mental imagery on scientific creativity
The metaphysics science needs
Ius Fantozzi. Law in a Perfectly Deterministic World
Green fields, ugly ducklings and black swans
Emotions in scientific practice
Mary Hesse on the role of the human imagination in the philosophy and practice of science
Scientists Are Epistemic Consequentialists about Imagination
Seeing More
School Science
Scientific Imagination as locus of Theology
True Enough
The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments
Puzzling over the Imagination
Simulation and Similarity
How the Laws of Physics Lie
Experience and prediction
Critique of the Power of Judgment
Understanding, Explanation, and Scientific Knowledge
Phantasia–The psychological significance of lifelong visual imagery vividness extremes
Lives without imagery – Congenital aphantasia
Experiments versus models
The strategy of model-based science
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination
Fables and Models
Introduction
Supposition and the Imaginative Realm
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science
The Epistemology of Resistance
Probing novelty at the LHC
Epistemic Uses of Imagination
The artist’s piece is already in the stone’
Imagination as a skill
Imagination and insight
Creativity and modelling the measurement process of the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC and HL-LHC
Where is the understanding
Taming theory with thought experiments
Narrative science and narrative knowing. Introduction to special issue on narrative science
Thought Experiments Rethought—and Reperceived
Thumper the Infinitesimal Rabbit
Experiments, Simulations, and Epistemic Privilege
Toward a Pluralist Account of the Imagination in Science
Models, Fictions, and Realism
The Productive Anarchy of Scientific Imagination
Against Creativity
Thought Experiments in Science and Philosophy
Putting the Image Back in Imagination
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Galileo and the Indispensability of Scientific Thought Experiment
The Value of Surprise in Science
Mimesis as Make-Believe
One Imagination in Experiences of Beauty and Achievements of Understanding
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Skill And Expertise
| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 3,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |