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Aesthetic Canon
Aesthetic Induction
aesthetic judgment in scientific reasoning
aesthetic values in science
aesthetics
Alexander Bird
Alice Murphy
ambition
Angela Breitenbach
arrogance
Beauty Experiences
beauty in science
best explanation
Cain Todd
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Catherine Elgin
counterfeit virtue
De Regt
decision making
discovery
Empirical Adequacy
Epistemic Ambition
Epistemic Feelings
Epistemic Goods
Epistemic Injustice
epistemic values
Epistemic Vice
Epistemic Virtue
Epistemically Arrogant
epistemology
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Equal Weight View
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
inference
Letitia Meynell
Margherita Arcangeli
Matthew Kieran
Maxwell's Demon
Maxwell’s Demon
Milena Ivanova
models
Non-aesthetic Features
Past Successful Theories
performance and practice
philosophy of art
philosophy of mathematics
philosophy of science
pictorial understanding
Processing Fluency
Propositional Imagining
representation
Rube Goldberg Machine
scientific creativity
scientific imagination
Scientific Realism Debate
Steven French
sublime
Sublimity Experiences
theory choice
thought experiments
truth
Truth Maker Theory
understanding
values in science
Vice Versa
visual aids

Product details

  • ISBN 9781032337180
  • Weight: 340g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Jun 2022
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

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.
About

Steven French is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, UK. He is a co-editor of Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art (Routledge, 2017) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Milena Ivanova is Teaching Associate in the Department for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge and Bye-Fellow at Fitzwilliam College