Chapter 3: Tools Expanding our technological imagination The modern sewing needle looks simple enough to have been invented in a single day by a single inventor, but it actually took hundreds of years and many incremental forms. (Adapted from Weber & Dixon, 1989)
Chapter 2: Testimony Expanding our historical imagination Young children deny the possibility of events that violate their expectations regardless of whether they are impossible, like eating lightning for dinner, or merely improbable, like finding an alligator under the bed.
Chapter 9!
Chapter 1: Our Unimaginative Imagination Imagination allows us to contemplate fantastical possibilities, like children riding on clouds, but it did not evolve for this purpose.
Learning to Imagine: The Science of Discovering New Possibilities (www.amazon.com/Learning-Ima...) is coming out Nov. 14! To celebrate, I will be posting an image and caption from each chapter over the next several days. Here’s the table of contents to start things off.
"Shtulman ably and incisively navigates this vast, fascinating terrain." Thank you, Science, for your thoughtful review of LEARNING TO IMAGINE (preorderable here: www.amazon.com/Learning-Ima...www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
