1st Edition
The Aesthetics of Science Beauty, Imagination and Understanding
1. Introduction
Milena Ivanova and Steven French
2. Epistemic Gatekeepers: The Role of Aesthetic Factors in Science
Catherine Elgin
3. Getting the Picture: Towards a New Account of Scientific Understanding
Letitia Meynell
4. Imagination, Aesthetic Feelings, and Scientific Reasoning
Cain Todd
5. Beauty, Truth and Understanding
Milena Ivanova
6. A Plea for the Sublime in Science
Margherita Arcangeli and Jérome Dokic
7. How Can Loveliness be a Guide to Truth? Inference to the Best Explanation and Exemplars
Alexander Bird
8. The Aesthetic and Literary Qualities of Scientific Thought Experiments
Alice Murphy
9. Epistemic Radicals and The Vice of Arrogance as a Counterfeit to the Virtue of Assured Epistemic Ambition
Matthew Kieran
10. Performance and Practice: Situating the Aesthetic Qualities of Theories
Steven French
Biography
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
"The papers are quite consistent and follow a nice structure. Even 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
