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Capturing The Scientific Imagination / Fiora Salis And Roman Frigg -- If Models Were Fictions, Then What Would They Be? / Amie L. Thomasson -- Realism About Missing Systems / Martin Thomson-jones -- The Fictional Character Of Scientific Models / Stacie Friend -- Models And Reality / Stephen Yablo -- Models, Fictions, And Conditionals / Peter Godfrey-smith -- Imagining Mechanisms With Diagrams / Benjamin Sheredos And William Bechtel -- Abstraction And Representational Capacity In Computational Structures / Michael Weisberg -- Learning By Thinking In Science And In Everyday Life / Tania Lombrozo -- Is Imagination Constrained Enough For Science? / Deena Skolnick Weisberg -- Can Children Benefit From Thought Experiments? / Igor Bascandziev And Paul M. Harris -- Metaphor And Scientific Explanation / Arnon Levy -- Imaginative Frames For Scientific Inquiry: Metaphors, Telling Facts, And Just-so Stories / Elizabeth Camp. Edited By Arnon Levy And Peter Godfrey-smith. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.