The elusive synthesis : aesthetics and science
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 latent tension inherent in the effort to explore the synthesis of "beauty" and science is examined.
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The Aesthetic Construction of Darwin's Theory; D. Kohn. The Sciences and the Arts Share a Common Aesthetic; R.S. Root-Bernstein. 3. Beautiful Experiments in the Life Sciences; F. Holmes. 4. Abstract Painting and Astronomical Image Processing; M. Lynch, S.Y. Edgerton, Jr. 5. Looking at Embryos: The Visual and Conceptual Aesthetics of Emerging Form; S.F. Gilbert, M. Faber. 6. Form and Function in the Molecularization of Biology; S. Sarkar. 7. Scientists' Aesthetic Preferences Among Theories: Conservative Factors in Revolutionary Crises; J.W. McAllister. 8. Objectivity: False Leads from T.S. Kuhn on the Role of the Aesthetic in the Science; J. Margolis. 9. Kant's Aesthetic-Expressive Vision of Mathematics; L. Chernyak, D. Kazhdan. 10. Physics as an Art: The German Tradition and the Symbolic Turn in Philosophy, History of Art and Natural Science in the 1920s; C. Chevalley. 11. Intersections of Art and Science to Create Aesthetic Perception; A.C. Faxon. 12. The Art of Displaying Science: Museum Exhibition; H. Hein. 13. From Descartes' Dream to Husserl's Nightmare; A.I. Tauber.
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