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 …

Speculative design is a subsidiary field of critical design practice. It generally involves
developing scenarios based on a central object, often a prototype. Because it is concerned …

Abstract Thought experiments, models, diagrams, computer simulations, and metaphors can
all be understood as tools of the imagination. While these devices are usually treated …

Sometimes we learn through the use of imagination. The epistemology of imagination asks
how this is possible. One barrier to progress on this question has been a lack of agreement …

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 …

Is there a role for aesthetic judgements in science? One aspect of scientific practice, the use
of thought experiments, has a clear aesthetic dimension. Thought experiments are creatively …

Those who wish to defend the role of aesthetic values in science face a dilemma: aesthetic
language is either used metaphorically for what are ultimately epistemic features, or it is …

An influential objection to the epistemic power of the imagination holds that it is
uninformative. You cannot get more out of the imagination than you put into it, and therefore …

In this paper, I take up the following puzzle: If Feynman diagrams represent states of affairs,
but do not do so truthfully what can their epistemic value be? I argue that Feynman diagrams …

Computational systems biologists create and manipulate computational models of biological
systems, but they do not always have straightforward epistemic access to the content and …