The Aesthetics of Science by Milena Ivanova
This volume addresses 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.-
Histories of the Value-Laden Ideals of Science
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When Metaphysics Meets Biology
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Pragmatism and Philosophy of Science
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Scientific Explanation, Causality, and Agency
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Physics and Free Will
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Evolution, Rationality and Cognition
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Philosophy of Biological Functions
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Fictions in Science
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Modeling the Possible
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Understanding and Conscious Experience
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Karl Popper and the Open Future of the Philosophy of Science
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Scientific Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy
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Conceptual Change and the Philosophy of Science
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Conceptual Systems
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Understanding Perspectivism
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Conjunctive Explanations
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Models, Simulations, and Representations
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Conservative Reductionism
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Causation, Evidence, and Inference
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Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science
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Essence in the Age of Evolution
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Emergence in Science and Philosophy
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Science after the Practice Turn in the Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science
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Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science
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Structure, Evidence, and Heuristic
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Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge
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Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited
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Logical Empiricism and the Physical Sciences
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Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications
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The Tools of Neuroscience Experiment
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Popper's Critical Rationalism
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Science, Freedom, Democracy
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Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science
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Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy, and the Arts
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The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments
The papers are quite consistent and follow a nice structureEven if you are working on more technical issues in the philosophy of science, it would nice to read some of these papers to have a new and enlightening look on how our understanding of the actual work of science might be extended. - Adam Tamsa Tuboly, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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
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| ISBN 13 | 9780367141141 |
| ISBN 10 | 0367141140 |
| Title | The Aesthetics of Science |
| Author | Milena Ivanova |
| Series | Routledge Studies In The Philosophy Of Science |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2020-01-22 |
| Number of pages | 222 |
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