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 …

For a long time, emotions were seen as incompatible with rationality and objectivity of
science, and so were a marginal topic in the philosophy of science. This trend has changed …

This article starts an engagement on the aesthetics of experiments and offers an account for
analysing how aesthetics features in the design, evaluation and reception of experiments. I …

Scientific results are often presented as 'surprising'as if that is a good thing. Is it? And if so,
why? What is the value of surprise in science? Discussions of surprise in science have been …

A growing literature in philosophy of science focuses on the role of aesthetics in scientific
practice, with the experiment recently recognized for its aesthetic value. However, the …

This paper provides an account of the nature of creativity in high-energy physics
experiments through an integrated historical and philosophical study of the current and …

Along three measurements at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a high energy particle
accelerator, we analyze procedures and consequences of exploratory experimentation (EE) …

This paper examines historic appraisals of string theory to develop a less abstract
understanding of the string theory controversy and assessment in non-empirical physics …

Some experimental results in science are productively surprising or beautiful. Such results
are disruptive in their epistemic nature: by violating epistemic expectations they mark the …

Prior to the start of data collection at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, many in the high
energy physics community strongly expected that evidence for supersymmetry (SUSY) …