- Promotor
- Co-promotor
- Date
- Friday 3 May 2024, 10:30 - 12:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Senate Hall
- Building
- Erasmus Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
On Friday 3 May 2024, S.M. Rijken will defend the doctoral thesis titled: ‘Science and Imagination‘.
Brief summary of the doctoral thesis:
This thesis is a conceptual and epistemological analysis of imagination and scientific thought experiments. The first part of this thesis deals with the definition and typology of imagination, and with the relation between imagination and related mental states such as supposition, visualisation, hallucination and memory. The second part of this thesis deals with the question whether we can use imagination to gain knowledge about the natural world - I argue that we can. The third and final part of this thesis deals with scientific thought experiments: I propose a novel account of scientific thought experiments based on a famous theory of fiction and a recently-developed philosophical account of scientific models.
- More information
The public defence will begin exactly at 10.30 hrs. The doors will be closed once the public defence starts, latecomers may be able to watch on the screen outside. There is no possibility of entrance during the first part of the ceremony. Due to the solemn nature of the ceremony, we recommend that you do not take children under the age of 6 to the first part of the ceremony.