{"id":5663,"date":"2018-10-24T18:30:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T17:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2021-10-12T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T15:00:05","slug":"imaginationinscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/imaginationinscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagination in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"justify\">Steven French\/ Melanie Keene\/ Alice Murphy<!--more--><\/h3>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Listen to the recording\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_europeaninstitute\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/europeaninstitute\/20181026_ImaginationInScience.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/span> or on <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-AQuRTZ7Tvs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Science is often mistakenly thought to involved nothing but cold reason. In reality, very human acts of creativity appear everywhere.\u00a0We explore the role of imaginative thinking in science.\u00a0Are thought experiments sources of knowledge or just hypotheses?\u00a0Can a story or narrative also be a scientific explanation? And how should a scientist balance creative thinking with respect for the facts?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Speakers<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ahc.leeds.ac.uk\/philosophy\/staff\/49\/professor-steven-french\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Steven French<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">, Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Leeds<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homerton.cam.ac.uk\/people\/melanie-keene\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Melanie Keene<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, Fellow, Homerton College, University of Cambridge<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ahc.leeds.ac.uk\/philosophy\/pgr\/1394\/alice-murphy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Alice Murphy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">, Postgraduate Researcher, University of Leeds<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Chair<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/jonathan-birch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Birch<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, Fellow, Forum for Philosophy; Associate Professor of Philosophy, LSE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Supported by the<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/CPNSS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">, LSE.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000\"><br \/>\nRecorded on 24 October 2018 at the LSE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven French\/ Melanie Keene\/ Alice Murphy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":5609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[58,71,57],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-aesthetics","tag-philosophyandliterature","tag-philosophyofscience"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2018\/10\/4-IMAGINATION-IN-SCIENCE-simple-e1568489240953.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-1tl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15962,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/15962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}