Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: the myth of Hippocrene
Epistemic value of imaginative processes
Leonardo's imagination
2. A glance on imaginative processes
5000 shades of imagining
From shades to periodic table of elements
3. Imagination in scienceScience driven by the power of imaginative activity
4. A brief history of an unachieved definition
Giambattista Vico and imagination as force of civilization
Looking for a definition
5. Imaginative processes and generalization
Knowing through imagining
Thought experiments and utopias
Expansive imagination
1. Conclusion: how can we build a theory of imagining
Sociogenesis of imagining
Educating imagining
2. References
3. Commentary 1: "Don't block the path of inquiry": Imagination, inquiry, and knowledge, Maria Virginia Dazzani & Waldomiro Silva Filho
4. Commentary 2: Imagination in Science, Luana Poliseli & Charbel N. El-Hani
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