Forum for Philosophy

Imagination in Science


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Steven French/ Melanie Keene/ Alice Murphy Listen to the recording here or on YouTube Science is often mistakenly thought to involved nothing but cold reason. In reality, very human acts of creativity appear everywhere. We explore the role of imaginative thinking in science. Are thought experiments sources of knowledge or just hypotheses? Can a story or narrative also be a scientific explanation? And how […]
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