Papers

Published Articles

Murphy, A. "Imagination and Creativity in the Scientific Realm". Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination and Creativity, edited by Amy Kind and Julia Langkau. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. preprint

Murphy, A. "Form and Content: A Defence of Aesthetic Value in Science". Philosophy of Science Vol 90 (3). 2023 [open access] preprint

Murphy, A. "Profound Experiments". M. Ivanova and A. Murphy (eds.) The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments. Routledge. 2023

French, S. and A. Murphy. “The Value of Surprise in Science". Erkenntnis 88. 2023 [open access] preprint

Murphy, A. “Imagination in Science”. Philosophy Compass Vol 17 (6). 2022 [open access]

Murphy, A. “Toward a Pluralist Account of the Imagination in Science". Philosophy of Science Vol 87 (5). 2020 preprint

Murphy, A. “The Aesthetic and Literary Qualities of Scientific Thought Experiments”. M. Ivanova and S. French (eds.) Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding. Routledge. 2020 preprint

Book

The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments (co-edited with Milena Ivanova). Routledge. 2023

We wrote about the book for Commonplace

Works in Progress

"Aesthetics and Agency in Experiments" (with Adrian Currie and Kirsten Walsh) 

"Imagination, Methodology, and Ontology in Mathematics" (with William D'Alessandro)

Book Reviews

"Judgments of Beauty in Theory Evaluation" by Devon Brickhouse-Bryson. Metascience 31. 2022

"Outside Color: Perceptual Science and the Puzzle of Color in Philosophy" by Mazviita Chirimuuta. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Vol 74 (4). 2016

Blogs

"'Seeing' in Understanding" (with Federica I. Malfatti)  Junkyard. 2021

"Beauty and the Scientific Imagination" Junkyard. 2019