1st Edition
The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments
Introduction Milena Ivanova and Alice Murphy
1. The Aesthetic Value of Scientific Experiments Milena Ivanova
2. Beautiful Experiments in Art and Science Claire Anscomb
3. Robert Boyle (1627-1691) and the Aesthetics of Chemical Experimentation Alexander Wragge-Morley
4. Science as Revelation: The Alchymist... by Joseph Wright of Derby Adrian Holme
5. Towards a New Aesthetics of Science: Aesthetic Cultures and the Processes and Objects of Regard Adrian Currie
6. Profound Experiments Alice Murphy
7. Experimental Science as Epistemic Expansion: New Work for a Theory of the Sublime Glenn Parsons
8. Aesthetic Cognitivism, Experimental Shielding, and Explanatory Reasoning James Nguyen
9. Something from Nothing: ‘Non-discovery’ and Transformations in High Energy Experimental Physics at the Large Hadron Collider Sophie Ritson
10. The Future Won’t be Pretty: The Nature and Value of Ugly, AI-Designed Experiments Michael T. Stuart
Biography
Milena Ivanova is a Byefellow at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, specializing in the aesthetics of science. Her project investigates the aesthetic values of scientific experiments. She is the author of Duhem and Holism (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding (Routledge).
Alice Murphy s a postdoctoral researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Munich. Her research focuses on aesthetic values in science, the epistemic role of imagination, and scientific thought experiments and models.
