The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments

Herausgeber: Murphy, Alice; Ivanova, Milena

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a novel perspective on aesthetics in experimentation via ten original essays from an interdisciplinary group comprised of philosophers, historians of science and art, and artists.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 150mm x 229mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781032205076
• ISBN-10: 1032205075
• Artikelnr.: 71909079

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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