Imagination in science

A Murphy - Philosophy Compass, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Key science goals for the next-generation Event Horizon Telescope

MD Johnson, K Akiyama, L Blackburn, KL Bouman… - Galaxies, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has led to the first images of a supermassive black
hole, revealing the central compact objects in the elliptical galaxy M87 and the Milky Way …

Physicality, modeling, and agency in a computational physics class

AM Phillips, EJ Gouvea, BE Gravel, PH Beachemin… - Physical Review Physics …, 2023 - APS
Computation is intertwined with essentially all aspects of physics research and is invaluable
for physicists' careers. Despite its disciplinary importance, integration of computation into …

The Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: History, Philosophy, and Culture

P Galison, J Doboszewski, J Elder, NCM Martens… - Galaxies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Galaxies | Free Full-Text | The Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration:
History, Philosophy, and Culture Next Article in Journal Observational Imprints of Enhanced …

[HTML][HTML] What is a beautiful experiment?

M Ivanova - Erkenntnis, 2023 - Springer
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 …

The aesthetic value of scientific experiments

M Ivanova - The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Can experiments be appreciated for their aesthetic value and what would this appreciation
be focused on? This chapter identifies a number of categories that are the focus of our …

The Qualitative Study of Scientific Imagination

MT Stuart - 2024 - philsci-archive.pitt.edu
Imagination is extremely important for science, yet very little is known about how scientists
actually use it. Are scientists taught to imagine? What do they value imagination for? How do …