The Elusive Synthesis: Aesthetics and Science
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- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Publish date: 10/31/1997
Description:
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.
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