Aesthetic values in science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4736847 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Milena Ivanova (0000-0002-1367-136X, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12433 |
| OpenAlex | W2617941308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 48 |
Scientists often use aesthetic values in the evaluation and choice of theories. Aesthetic values are not only regarded as leading to practically more useful theories but are often taken to stand in a special epistemic relation to the truth of a theory such that the aesthetic merit of a theory is evidence of its truth. This paper explores what aesthetic considerations influence scientists' reasoning, how such aesthetic values relate to the utility of a scientific theory, and how one can justify the epistemic role for such values. The paper examines ways in which the link between beauty and truth can be defended, the challenges facing such accounts, and explores alternative epistemic roles for aesthetic values in scientific practice
Aesthetics · Beauty · Epistemology · Scientific theory · Sociology · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Computer Science · Empathy and Medical Education · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology
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The Pandemic of Argumentation
Public engagement with health data governance
Aesthetic Criteria in Fundamental Physics—The Viewpoint of Plato
Experiência Da Imagem Na História E Na Filosofia Da Ciência
Taste and the history of science
What is a Beautiful Experiment
Delineating beauty
Agency and aesthetic identity
Emotions in scientific practice
Sociological Beauty
Beauty leads to truth
Rationally warranted promise
How (not) to understand weak measurements of velocities
Form and Content
Epistemic Engagement, Aesthetic Value, and Scientific Practice
The aesthetics of scientific experiments
Elements of Symbolic Logic
The Structure of the World
A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism
The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory
Inference to the Best Explanation
Explanation and Scientific Understanding
The structure of scientific revolutions
A Model-Theoretic Account of Representation (Or, I Don't Know Much about Art…but I Know It Involves Isomorphism)
Scientific understanding
Understanding
Beauty, A Road To The Truth
Where is the understanding
Conventionalism about what? Where Duhem and Poincaré part ways
Pierre Duhem’s good sense as a guide to theory choice
Pierre Duhem’s virtue epistemology
No understanding without explanation
Explanatory Unification
Discussion Note
Beauty and Revolution in Science
Fearful Symmetry. The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics
Is Understanding A Species Of Knowledge
Aesthetics in Science and in Art
The epistemic significance of appreciating experiments aesthetically
Experiments, Nature and Aesthetic Experience in the Eighteenth Century
Mere Exposure to Bad Art
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |