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The Scientific Imagination (Hardcover)
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The Scientific Imagination (Hardcover)
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The imagination, our capacity to entertain thoughts and ideas "in
the mind's eye," is indispensable in science as elsewhere in human
life. Indeed, common scientific practices such as modeling and
idealization rely on the imagination to construct simplified,
stylized scenarios essential for scientific understanding. Yet the
philosophy of science has traditionally shied away from according
an important role to the imagination, wary of psychologizing
fundamental scientific concepts like explanation and justification.
In recent years, however, advances in thinking about creativity and
fiction, and their relation to theorizing and understanding, have
prompted a move away from older philosophical perspectives and
toward a greater acknowledgement of the place of the imagination in
scientific practice. Meanwhile, psychologists have engaged in
significant experimental work on the role of the imagination in
causal thinking and probabilistic reasoning. The Scientific
Imagination delves into this burgeoning area of debate at the
intersection of the philosophy and practice of science, bringing
together the work of leading researchers in philosophy and
psychology. Philosophers discuss such topics as modeling,
idealization, metaphor and explanation, examining their role within
science as well as how they affect questions in metaphysics,
epistemology and philosophy of language. Psychologists discuss how
our imaginative capacities develop and how they work, their
relationships with processes of reasoning, and how they compare to
related capacities, such as categorization and counterfactual
thinking. Together, these contributions combine to provide a
comprehensive and exciting picture of the scientific imagination.
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