The Elusive Synthesis: Aesthetics and Science
The tension between art and science may be traced back to the Greeks. What became "natural philosophy" and later "science" has traditionally been posed as a fundamental alternative to poetry and art. It is a theme that has commanded central attention in Western thought, as it cap...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1997, 1997
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1997 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The Aesthetic Construction of Darwin’s Theory
- The Sciences and Arts Share a Common Creative Aesthetic
- Beautiful Experiments in the Life Sciences
- Abstract Painting and Astronomical Image Processing
- Looking at Embryos: The Visual and Conceptual Aesthetics of Emerging Form
- Form and Function in the Molecularization of Biology
- Scientists’ Aesthetic Preferences Among Theories: Conservative Factors in Revolutionary Crises
- Objectivity: False Leads from T. S. Kuhn on the Role of the Aesthetic in the Sciences
- Kant and the Aesthetic-Expressive Vision of Mathematics
- Physics as an Art: The German Tradition and the Symbolic Turn in Philosophy, History of Art and Natural Science in the 1920s
- Intersections of Art and Science to Create Aesthetic Perception: The Problem of Postmodernism
- The Art of Displaying Science: Museum Exhibitions
- From Descartes’ Dream to Husserl’s Nightmare
- Name Index