The Aesthetics Of Scientific Experiments

Author : Milena Ivanova,Alice Murphy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000900804

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The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments by Milena Ivanova,Alice Murphy Pdf

The relationship between aesthetics and science has begun to generate substantial interest. However, for the most part, the focus has been on the beauty of theories, and other aspects of scientific practice have been neglected. 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. The collection provides an analysis of the concept of beauty in the evaluation of experiments. What properties do practising experimenters value? How have the aesthetic properties of scientific experiments changed over the years? Secondly, the volume looks at the role that aesthetic factors, including negative values such as ugliness, as well as experiences of the sublime and the profound, play in the construction of an experiment and its reception. Thirdly, the chapters provide in-depth historical case studies from the Royal Society, which also allows for a study of the depiction of scientific experiment in artworks, as well as contemporary examples from the Large Hadron Collider and cases of experiments designed by artificial intelligence. Finally, it offers an exploration of the commonalities between how we learn from experiments on the one hand and the cognitive value of artworks on the other. The Aesthetics of Scientific Experiments will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in philosophy and history of science, philosophy and history of art, as well as practising scientists and science communicators.

Author : Milena Ivanova,Steven French
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429638558

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The Aesthetics of Science by Milena Ivanova,Steven French Pdf

This volume builds on two recent developments in philosophy on the relationship between art and science: the notion of representation and the role of values in theory choice and the development of scientific theories. Its aim is to address questions regarding scientific creativity and imagination, the status of scientific performances—such as thought experiments and visual aids—and the role of aesthetic considerations in the context of discovery and justification of scientific theories. Several contributions focus on the concept of beauty as employed by practising scientists, the aesthetic factors at play in science and their role in decision making. Other essays address the question of scientific creativity and how aesthetic judgment resolves the problem of theory choice by employing aesthetic criteria and incorporating insights from both objectivism and subjectivism. The volume also features original perspectives on the role of the sublime in science and sheds light on the empirical work studying the experience of the sublime in science and its relation to the experience of understanding. The Aesthetics of Science tackles these topics from a variety of novel and thought-provoking angles. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in philosophy of science and aesthetics, as well as other subdisciplines such as epistemology and philosophy of mathematics.

Author : Martin Siefkes,Emanuele Arielli
Publisher : Sprache ¿ Medien ¿ Innovationen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 3631675623

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The Aesthetics and Multimodality of Style by Martin Siefkes,Emanuele Arielli Pdf

The book outlines experimental style research in aesthetics and multimodality research. It focuses on human cognitive and perceptual processes connected with style. On this basis, a common theoretical basis for style in literature, art, architecture, and design is proposed. - neuroaesthetics; stylistics; linguistics; cognition; art; design

Author : Per-Olof Wickman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780805855036

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Aesthetic Experience in Science Education by Per-Olof Wickman Pdf

Examines the role of aesthetic experience in learning science and in its education from the perspective of knowledge as action and language use. This book is intended for educational researchers, graduate students, and teacher educators in science education internationally, as well as those interested in aesthetics, and philosophy of education.

Author : Philippe Sormani,Guelfo Carbone,Priska Gisler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351708074

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Practicing Art/Science by Philippe Sormani,Guelfo Carbone,Priska Gisler Pdf

Over the last two decades, multiple initiatives of transdisciplinary collaboration across art, science, and technology have seen the light of day. Why, by whom, and under what circumstances are such initiatives promoted? What does their experimental character look like - and what can be learned, epistemologically and institutionally, from probing the multiple practices of "art/science" at work? In answer to the questions raised, Practicing Art/Science contrasts topical positions and insightful case studies, ranging from the detailed investigation of "art at the nanoscale" to the material analysis of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and its cracked smile. In so doing, this volume brings to bear the "practice turn" in science and technology studies on the empirical investigation of multifaceted experimentation across contemporary art, science, and technology in situ. Against the background of current discourse on "artistic research," the introduction not only explains the particular relevance of the "practice turn" in STS to tackle the interdisciplinary task at hand, but offers also a timely survey of varying strands of artistic experimentation. In bringing together ground-breaking studies from internationally renowned scholars and upcoming researchers in sociology, art theory and artistic practice, as well as history and philosophy of science, Practicing Art/Science will be essential reading for practitioners and professionals in said fields, as well as postgraduate students and representatives of higher education and research policy more broadly.

Author : Arthur P. Shimamura,Stephen E. Palmer
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199732142

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Aesthetic Science by Arthur P. Shimamura,Stephen E. Palmer Pdf

What do we do when we view a work of art? What does it mean to have an 'aesthetic' experience? Are such experiences purely in the eye of the beholder? This book addresses the nature of aesthetic experience from the perspectives of philosophy psychology and neuroscience.

Author : Natasha Lushetich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781786606860

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The Aesthetics of Necropolitics by Natasha Lushetich Pdf

The collection comprises contributions from leading artist-theorists in the fields of necropolitics and tactical media, and from increasingly influential scholars of biomediality and urban performativity

Author : Per-Olof Wickman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135602024

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Aesthetic Experience in Science Education by Per-Olof Wickman Pdf

This book examines the role of aesthetic experience in learning science and in science education from the perspective of knowledge as action and language use. The theoretical underpinnings are based on the writings of John Dewey and Ludwig Wittgenstein. In their spirit aesthetics is examined as it appears in the lives of people and how it relates to the activities in which they are involved. Centered around an empirical analysis of how students and their teachers use aesthetic language and acts during laboratory and field work, the book demonstrates that aesthetics is something that is constantly talked about in science class and that these aesthetic experiences are intimately involved in learning science. These empirical findings are related to current debates about the relation between aesthetics and science, and about motivation, participation, learning and socio-cultural issues in science education. This book features: *an empirical demonstration of the importance and specific roles of aesthetic experiences in learning science; *a novel contribution to the current debate on how to understand motivation, participation and learning; and *a new methodology of studying learning in action. Part I sketches out the theoretical concepts of Wickman's practical epistemology analysis of the fundamental role of aesthetics in science and science education. Part II develops these concepts through an analysis of the use of aesthetic judgments when students and teachers are talking in university science classes. Part III sums up the general implications of the theoretical underpinnings and empirical findings for teaching and learning science. Here Wickman expands the findings of his study beyond the university setting to K-8 school science, and explicates what it would mean to make science education more aesthetically meaningful. Wickman's conclusions deal to a large extent with aesthetic experience as individual transformation and with people's prospects for participation in an activity such as science education. These conclusions have significance beyond science teaching and learning that should be of concern to educators generally. This book is intended for educational researchers, graduate students, and teacher educators in science education internationally, as well as those interested in aesthetics, philosophy of education, discourse analysis, socio-cultural issues, motivation, learning and meaning-making more generally.

Author : Ernst Peter Fischer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781489961440

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Beauty and the Beast by Ernst Peter Fischer Pdf

Showing how the aesthetic delights of thought, analysis, research, and discovery are leading components of the scientific mind and process, he examines everything from snowflakes to the overall makeup of the space-time continuum. He explores these concepts and others including the golden mean, evolution, symmetry in nature, as well as imaginary numbers and irrationality as proof of beauty in science. He presents truth as a state of beauty - and beauty as the embodiment of truth. This book will appeal to lay people and scientists alike.

Author : G. Gabrielle Starr
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262019316

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Feeling Beauty by G. Gabrielle Starr Pdf

A theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry. In Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions of aesthetics and the arts. Drawing on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry, Starr shows that neuroaesthetics offers a new model for understanding the dynamic and changing features of aesthetic life, the relationships among the arts, and how individual differences in aesthetic judgment shape the varieties of aesthetic experience. Starr, a scholar of the humanities and a researcher in the neuroscience of aesthetics, proposes that aesthetic experience relies on a distributed neural architecture—a set of brain areas involved in emotion, perception, imagery, memory, and language. More important, it emerges from networked interactions, intricately connected and coordinated brain systems that together form a flexible architecture enabling us to develop new arts and to see the world around us differently. Focusing on the "sister arts" of poetry, painting, and music, Starr builds and tests a neural model of aesthetic experience valid across all the arts. Asking why works that address different senses using different means seem to produce the same set of feelings, she examines particular works of art in a range of media, including a poem by Keats, a painting by van Gogh, a sculpture by Bernini, and Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. Starr's innovative, interdisciplinary analysis is true to the complexities of both the physical instantiation of aesthetics and the realities of artistic representation.

Author : Erica Fretwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1478010932

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Sensory Experiments by Erica Fretwell Pdf

Erica Fretwell examines how psychophysics--a nineteenth-century scientific movement originating in Germany dedicated to the empirical study of sensory experience--became central to the process of creating human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability in nineteenth-century America.

Author : Greg Currie,Matthew Kieran,Aaron Meskin,Jon Robson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191648403

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Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind by Greg Currie,Matthew Kieran,Aaron Meskin,Jon Robson Pdf

Through much of the twentieth century, philosophical thinking about works of art, design, and other aesthetic products has emphasized intuitive and reflective methods, often tied to the idea that philosophy's business is primarily to analyze concepts. This 'philosophy from the armchair' approach contrasts with methods used by psychologists, sociologists, evolutionary thinkers, and others who study the making and reception of the arts empirically. How far should philosophers be sensitive to the results of these studies? Is their own largely a priori method basically flawed? Are their views on aesthetic value, interpretation, imagination, and the emotions of art to be rethought in the light of best science? The essays in this volume seek answers to these questions, many through detailed studies of problems traditionally regarded as philosophical but where empirical inquiry seems to be shedding interesting light. No common view is looked for or found in this volume: a number of authors argue that the current enthusiasm for scientific approaches to aesthetics is based on a misunderstanding of the philosophical enterprise and sometimes on misinterpretation of the science; others suggest various ways that philosophy can and should accommodate and sometimes yield to the empirical approach. The editors provide a substantial introduction which sets the scene historically and conceptually before summarizing the claims and arguments of the essays.

Author : Judith Wechsler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:233866705

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On Aesthetics in Science by Judith Wechsler Pdf

Author : Thomas Munro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : WISC:89054192174

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Scientific Method in Æsthetics by Thomas Munro Pdf

Author : Peter Godfrey-Smith,Arnon Levy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190212308

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The Scientific Imagination by Peter Godfrey-Smith,Arnon Levy Pdf

The imagination, our capacity to entertain thoughts and ideas "in the mind's eye," is indispensable in science as elsewhere in human life. Indeed, common scientific practices such as modeling and idealization rely on the imagination to construct simplified, stylized scenarios essential for scientific understanding. Yet the philosophy of science has traditionally shied away from according an important role to the imagination, wary of psychologizing fundamental scientific concepts like explanation and justification. In recent years, however, advances in thinking about creativity and fiction, and their relation to theorizing and understanding, have prompted a move away from older philosophical perspectives and toward a greater acknowledgement of the place of the imagination in scientific practice. Meanwhile, psychologists have engaged in significant experimental work on the role of the imagination in causal thinking and probabilistic reasoning. The Scientific Imagination delves into this burgeoning area of debate at the intersection of the philosophy and practice of science, bringing together the work of leading researchers in philosophy and psychology. Philosophers discuss such topics as modeling, idealization, metaphor and explanation, examining their role within science as well as how they affect questions in metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of language. Psychologists discuss how our imaginative capacities develop and how they work, their relationships with processes of reasoning, and how they compare to related capacities, such as categorization and counterfactual thinking. Together, these contributions combine to provide a comprehensive and exciting picture of the scientific imagination.