1st Edition
Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art Bringing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Science Together
Introduction
1 Methodological lessons for the integration of philosophy of science and aesthetics: The case of representation (Julia Sánchez-Dorado)
2 Nature’s handmaid, art (Catherine Z. Elgin)
3 Of barrels and pipes: Representation-as in art and science (Roman Frigg and James Nguyen)
4 Is Captain Kirk a natural blonde? Do X-ray crystallographers dream of electron clouds? Comparing model-based inferences in science with fiction (Ann-Sophie Barwich)
5 Interpreting the sciences, interpreting the arts (Otávio Bueno)
6 Deep indeterminacy in physics and fiction (George Darby, Martin Pickup and Jon Robson)
7 Some philosophical problems of music theory (and some music-theoretic problems of philosophy) (Dean Rickles)
8 Kant on beauty and cognition (Alix Cohen)
9 Epistemology as fiction (Adam Toon)
10 Art, science and abstract artefacts (Steven French)
Biography
Otávio Bueno is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Miami, USA.
George Darby is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK.
Steven French is Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds, UK.
Dean Rickles is Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics at the University of Sydney, Australia.
