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The Aesthetics of Science - Beauty, Imagination and Understanding (Paperback)
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The Aesthetics of Science - Beauty, Imagination and Understanding (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
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This volume builds on two recent developments in philosophy on the
relationship between art and science: the notion of representation
and the role of values in theory choice and the development of
scientific theories. Its aim is to address questions regarding
scientific creativity and imagination, the status of scientific
performances-such as thought experiments and visual aids-and the
role of aesthetic considerations in the context of discovery and
justification of scientific theories. Several contributions focus
on the concept of beauty as employed by practising scientists, the
aesthetic factors at play in science and their role in decision
making. Other essays address the question of scientific creativity
and how aesthetic judgment resolves the problem of theory choice by
employing aesthetic criteria and incorporating insights from both
objectivism and subjectivism. The volume also features original
perspectives on the role of the sublime in science and sheds light
on the empirical work studying the experience of the sublime in
science and its relation to the experience of understanding. The
Aesthetics of Science tackles these topics from a variety of novel
and thought-provoking angles. It will be of interest to researchers
and advanced students in philosophy of science and aesthetics, as
well as other subdisciplines such as epistemology and philosophy of
mathematics.
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