The practice of paleontology has an aesthetic as well as an
epistemic dimension. Paleontology has distinctively aesthetic aims,
such as cultivating sense of place and developing a better
aesthetic appreciation of fossils. Scientific cognitivists in
environmental aesthetics argue that scientific knowledge deepens
and enhances our appreciation of nature. Drawing on that tradition,
this Element argues that knowledge of something's history makes a
difference to how we engage with it aesthetically. This means that
investigation of the deep past can contribute to aesthetic aims.
Aesthetic engagement with fossils and landscapes is also crucial to
explaining paleontology's epistemic successes.
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