The elusive synthesis: aesthetics and science

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Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers (1996)
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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 ...

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Q175.32.A47.B67 vol. 182

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0792339045   0792347633   9780792339045   9780792347637

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The aesthetic construction of Darwin's theory.  (pages 13--48)David Kohn
The sciences and arts share a common creative aesthetic.  (pages 49--82)Robert S. Root-Bernstein
Beautiful Experiments in the Life Sciences.  (pages 83--101)Frederic L. Holmes
Looking at embryos: the visual and conceptual aesthetics of emerging form.  (pages 125--151)Scott F. Gilbert & Marion Faber
Form and function in the molecularization of biology.  (pages 153--168)Sahotra Sarkar
Scientists' Aesthetic Preferences Among Theories: Conservative Factors in Revolutionary Crises.  (pages 169--187)James W. McAllister
Objectivity: False leads from TS Kuhn on the role of the aesthetic in the sciences.  (pages 189--202)Joseph Margolis
Kant and the Aesthetic-Expressive Vision of Mathematics.  (pages 203--225)Leon Chernyak & David Kazhdan
Physics as an art: the German tradition and the symbolic turn in philosophy, history of art and natural science in the 1920s.  (pages 227--249)Catherine Chevalley
The art of displaying science: Museum exhibitions.  (pages 267--288)Hilde Hein
From Descartes' Dream to Husserl's Nightmare.  (pages 289--312)Alfred I. Tauber

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