Scientific Imagination

Herausgeber: Levy, Arnon; Godfrey-Smith, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at the role of the imagination in science, from both philosophical and psychological perspectives. These contributions combine to provide a comprehensive and exciting picture of this under-explored subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9780190212308
• ISBN-10: 0190212306
• Artikelnr.: 57148325

Autorenporträt

Arnon Levy is a philosopher of science and biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on explanation and modeling in the life sciences. Peter Godfrey-Smith is a philosopher at the University of Sydney. His work focuses on philosophy of biology and philosophy of mind.

Inhaltsangabe

* About the Contributors
* Introduction
* 1: Fiora Salis and Roman Frigg: Capturing the Scientific Imagination
* 2: Amie L. Thomasson: If Models Were Fictions, Then What Would They
Be?
* 3: Martin Thomson-Jones: Realism About Missing Systems
* 4: Stacie Friend: The Fictional Character of Scientific Models
* 5: Stephen Yablo: Models and Reality
* 6: Peter Godfrey-Smith: Models, Fictions, and Conditionals
* 7: Benjamin Sheredos and William Bechtel: Imagining Mechanisms with
Diagrams
* 8: Michael Weisberg: Abstraction and Representational Capacity in
Computational Structures
* 9: Tania Lombrozo: "Learning by Thinking" in Science and in Everyday
Life
* 10: Deena Skolnick Weisberg: Is Imagination Constrained Enough for
Science?
* 11: Igor Bascandziev and Paul M. Harris: Can Children Benefit from
Thought Experiments?
* 12: Arnon Levy: Metaphor and Scientific Explanation
* 13: Elizabeth Camp: Imaginative Frames for Scientific Inquiry:
Metaphors, Telling Facts, and Just-So Stories