While discussions of the imagination have been limited in philosophy science, this is beginning to change. In recent years, a vast literature on science has emerged. This paper surveys current field, including changing attitudes towards scientific imagination, fiction view models, how can lead knowledge and understanding, value different types imagination. It ends with discussion gaps literatur...

Imagination is considered an important component of the creative process, and many psychologists agree that imagination is based on our perceptions, experiences, and conceptual knowledge, recombining them into novel ideas and impressions never before experienced. As an attempt to model this account of imagination, we introduce the Associative Conceptual Imagination (ACI) framework that uses ass...