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Inclusivity in the Education of Scientific Imagination
Scientists imagine constantly. They do this when generating research problems, designing experiments, interpreting data, troubleshooting, drafting...
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Vratislav Effenberger’s conception of the role of imagination in ideological thought
This paper explores the core characteristics of Vratislav Effenberger’s theoretical system, highlighting his perspective on the significance of...
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The Centrality of the Imagination in Scepticism and Animal Faith
Rubin examines the central role of the imagination in Santayana’s life and works. He shows how the imagination is fundamental to Santayana’s...
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Divided by Language, but United in the Imagination?
In my contribution to this special issue (under the title “Religions and Languages: A Polyphony of Faiths”), I draw attention to the topic of the...
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Science, responsibility, and the philosophical imagination
If we cannot define science using only analysis or description, then we must rely on imagination to provide us with suitable objects of philosophical...
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Imagination in Scientific Practice
What is the role of the imagination in scientific practice? Here I focus on the nature and role of invitations to imagine in certain scientific texts...
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Scientific counterfactuals as make-believe
Counterfactuals abound in science, especially when reasoning about and with models. This often requires entertaining counterfactual conditionals with...
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Empathy, Imagination, and Interpersonal Understanding in Medical Practice
Professional empathy in health care is a feeling with, about, and for the patient that opens up a world to be explored by way of imagination and...
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Digital Imagination: Ihde’s and Stiegler’s Concepts of Imagination
As AI algorithms advance and produce surprising outputs, the question of imagination arises. Can we classify their output as imaginative? And what is...
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Unshackling Imagination: How Philosophical Pragmatism can Liberate Entrepreneurial Decision-Making
Despite the evident importance of imagination in both ethical decision-making and entrepreneurship, significant gaps remain in our understanding of...
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Otto Neurath’s Scientific Utopianism Revisited-A Refined Model for Utopias in Thought Experiments
Otto Neurath’s empiricist methodology of economics and his contributions to political economy have gained increasing attention in recent years. We...
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Imagination and Transcendental Objects: Kant on the Imaginary Focus of Reason
Going back to Jacobi, commentators have often considered Kant’s notion of the transcendental object (thing in itself, monad, or object = X) to be...
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Legal Tech, the Law Firm and the Imagination of the Right Legal Answer
Legal tech is growing, and its growth provokes anxieties about the future of the legal profession as such. In this article, we examine the impact of...
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Untying the knot: imagination, perception and their neural substrates
How tight is the conceptual connection between imagination and perception? A number of philosophers, from the early moderns to present-day predictive...
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Imagination as Essential Work
Previously fortified by business’s gamble on the illusion of certainty, the worker has been thrust into an existential crisis by an overwhelmingly...
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Imagination, expectation, and “thoughts entangled in metaphors”
George Eliot strikingly describes one of her characters as making a mistake because he has gotten his thoughts “entangled in metaphors,” saying that...
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Human Thought, Mathematics, and Physical Discovery
In this paper I discuss Mark Steiner’s view of the contribution of mathematics to physics and take up some of the questions it raises. In particular,...
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Clothing and the Discovery of Science
In addition to natural curiosity, science is characterized by a number of psychological processes and perceptions. Among the psychological features,...