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
PhD Thesis
"Thought Experiments and the Scientific Imagination", October 2020