Arnon Levy is a philosopher of science and biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on explanation and modeling in the life sciences. Peter Godfrey-Smith is a philosopher at the University of Sydney. His work focuses on philosophy of biology and philosophy of mind.

The book contains thirteen chapters, written by philosophers and psychologists, each exploring the role of imagination in scientific inquiry. Many (though not all) of the chapters focus on scientific modelling and, in particular, on the idea that models can be com- pared to works of fiction, a view defended by Levy and Godfrey-Smith themselves, along with me, Roman Frigg and others...I should stress, however, that the book contains a great deal else that is of interest too.

• About the Contributors Arnon Levy and Peter Godfrey-Smith: Introduction 1: Fiora Salis and Roman Frigg: Capturing the Scientific Imagination 2: Amie L. Thomasson: If Models Were Fictions, Then What Would They Be? 3: Martin Thomson-Jones: Realism About Missing Systems 4: Stacie Friend: The Fictional Character of Scientific Models 5: Stephen Yablo: Models and Reality 6: Peter Godfrey-Smith: Models, Fictions, and Conditionals 7: Benjamin Sheredos and William Bechtel: Imagining Mechanisms with Diagrams 8: Michael Weisberg: Abstraction and Representational Capacity in Computational Structures 9: Tania Lombrozo: âLearning by Thinkingâ in Science and in Everyday Life 10: Deena Skolnick Weisberg: Is Imagination Constrained Enough for Science? 11: Igor Bascandziev and Paul M. Harris: Can Children Benefit from Thought Experiments? 12: Arnon Levy: Metaphor and Scientific Explanation 13: Elizabeth Camp: Imaginative Frames for Scientific Inquiry: Metaphors, Telling Facts, and Just-So Stories

Arnon Levy is a philosopher of science and biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on explanation and modeling in the life sciences. Peter Godfrey-Smith is a philosopher at the University of Sydney. His work focuses on philosophy of biology and philosophy of mind.

The book contains thirteen chapters, written by philosophers and psychologists, each exploring the role of imagination in scientific inquiry. Many (though not all) of the chapters focus on scientific modelling and, in particular, on the idea that models can be com- pared to works of fiction, a view defended by Levy and Godfrey-Smith themselves, along with me, Roman Frigg and others...I should stress, however, that the book contains a great deal else that is of interest too.

• About the Contributors Arnon Levy and Peter Godfrey-Smith: Introduction 1: Fiora Salis and Roman Frigg: Capturing the Scientific Imagination 2: Amie L. Thomasson: If Models Were Fictions, Then What Would They Be? 3: Martin Thomson-Jones: Realism About Missing Systems 4: Stacie Friend: The Fictional Character of Scientific Models 5: Stephen Yablo: Models and Reality 6: Peter Godfrey-Smith: Models, Fictions, and Conditionals 7: Benjamin Sheredos and William Bechtel: Imagining Mechanisms with Diagrams 8: Michael Weisberg: Abstraction and Representational Capacity in Computational Structures 9: Tania Lombrozo: âLearning by Thinkingâ in Science and in Everyday Life 10: Deena Skolnick Weisberg: Is Imagination Constrained Enough for Science? 11: Igor Bascandziev and Paul M. Harris: Can Children Benefit from Thought Experiments? 12: Arnon Levy: Metaphor and Scientific Explanation 13: Elizabeth Camp: Imaginative Frames for Scientific Inquiry: Metaphors, Telling Facts, and Just-So Stories