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This collection of essays ranges from phenomenological descriptions of the beautiful in science to analytical explorations of the philosophical conjunction of the aesthetic and the scientific. The book is organized around two central tenets. The first is that scientific experience is laden with an emotive content of the beautiful, which is manifest in the conceptualizxation of raw data, both in the particulars of presenting and experiencing the phenomenon under investigation, and in the broader theoretical formulation that binds the facts into unitary wholes. The second major theme acknowledges that there may be deeply-shared philosophical foundations underlying science and aesthetics, but in the 20th century such commonality has become increasingly difficult to discern. The problem accounts in large measure for the recurrent debate on how to link science and beauty, and the latent tension in the effort to tentatively explore what is often only their intuited synthesis.

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Author:   A.I. Tauber
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Volume:   182
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.603kg
ISBN:  

9780792347637

ISBN 10:   0792347633
Pages:   329
Publication Date:   31 October 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

The Aesthetic Construction of Darwin’s Theory.- The Sciences and Arts Share a Common Creative Aesthetic.- Beautiful Experiments in the Life Sciences.- Abstract Painting and Astronomical Image Processing.- Looking at Embryos: The Visual and Conceptual Aesthetics of Emerging Form.- Form and Function in the Molecularization of Biology.- Scientists’ Aesthetic Preferences Among Theories: Conservative Factors in Revolutionary Crises.- Objectivity: False Leads from T. S. Kuhn on the Role of the Aesthetic in the Sciences.- Kant and the Aesthetic-Expressive Vision of Mathematics.- Physics as an Art: The German Tradition and the Symbolic Turn in Philosophy, History of Art and Natural Science in the 1920s.- Intersections of Art and Science to Create Aesthetic Perception: The Problem of Postmodernism.- The Art of Displaying Science: Museum Exhibitions.- From Descartes’ Dream to Husserl’s Nightmare.- Name Index.

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