Science is popularly understood as being an ideal of impartial
algorithmic objectivity that provides us with a realistic
description of the world down to the last detail. The essays
collected in this book -- written by some of the leading experts in
the field -- challenge this popular image right at its heart,
taking as their starting point that science trades not only in
truth, but in fiction, too. With case studies that range from
physics to economics and to biology, Fictions in Science reveals
that fictions are as ubiquitous in scientific narratives and
practice as they are in any other human endeavor, including
literature and art. Of course scientific activity, most prominently
in the formal sciences, employs logically precise algorithmic
thinking. However, the key to the predictive and technological
success of the empirical sciences might well lie elsewhere --
perhaps even in scientists' extraordinary creative imagination
instead. As these essays demonstrate, within the bounds of what is
empirically possible, a scientist's capacity for invention and
creative thinking matches that of any writer or artist.
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