The Science Of Æsthetics

Author : Milena Ivanova,Steven French
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : A.I. Tauber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0792347633

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The Elusive Synthesis by A.I. Tauber Pdf

An anthology of 13 original essays clustering around two notions: that scientific experience is laden with an emotive content of the beautiful that is manifest both in the conceptualization and presentation of specific data and in the broader theoretical formulations that bind details into unitary wholes; and that science and aesthetics may share a deep philosophical foundation, but if so it has become increasingly difficult to discern in the 20th century. The topics include the aesthetic construction of Darwin's theory, form and function in the molecularization of biology, Kant's aesthetic-expressive vision of mathematics, and the art of displaying science in museum exhibitions. No subject index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Otávio Bueno,George Darby,Steven French,Dean Rickles
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032569867

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Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art by Otávio Bueno,George Darby,Steven French,Dean Rickles Pdf

Thinking about Science, Relecting on Art is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between the philosophy of science and aesthetics.

Author : Alberto Bellocchi,Cassie Quigley,Kathrin Otrel-Cass
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319433530

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Exploring Emotions, Aesthetics and Wellbeing in Science Education Research by Alberto Bellocchi,Cassie Quigley,Kathrin Otrel-Cass Pdf

This book addresses new research directions focusing on the emotional and aesthetic nature of teaching and learning science informing more general insights about wellbeing. It considers methodological traditions including those informed by philosophy, sociology, psychology and education and how they contribute to our understanding of science education. In this collection, the authors provide accounts of the underlying ontological, epistemological, methodological perspectives and theoretical assumptions that inform their work and that of others. Each chapter provides a perspective on the study of emotion, aesthetics or wellbeing, using empirical examples or a discussion of existing literature to unpack the theoretical and philosophical traditions inherent in those works. This volume offers a diverse range of approaches for anyone interested in researching emotions, aesthetics, or wellbeing. It is ideal for research students who are confronted with a cosmos of research perspectives, but also for established researchers in various disciplines with an interest in researching emotions, affect, aesthetics, or wellbeing.

Author : Judith Wechsler
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005075075

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On Aesthetics in Science by Judith Wechsler Pdf

Author : Arthur P. Shimamura,Stephen E. Palmer
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : S. Chandrasekhar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226162775

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Truth and Beauty by S. Chandrasekhar Pdf

"What a splendid book! Reading it is a joy, and for me, at least, continuing reading it became compulsive. . . . Chandrasekhar is a distinguished astrophysicist and every one of the lectures bears the hallmark of all his work: precision, thoroughness, lucidity."—Sir Hermann Bondi, Nature The late S. Chandrasekhar was best known for his discovery of the upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf star, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. He was the author of many books, including The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes and, most recently, Newton's Principia for the Common Reader.

Author : M. Norton Wise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226531496

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Aesthetics, Industry & Science by M. Norton Wise Pdf

On January 5, 1845, the Prussian cultural minister received a request by a group of six young men to form a new Physical Society in Berlin. In fields from thermodynamics, mechanics, and electromagnetism to animal electricity, ophthalmology, and psychophysics, members of this small but growing group—which soon included Emil Du Bois-Reymond, Ernst Brücke, Werner Siemens, and Hermann von Helmholtz—established leading positions in what only thirty years later had become a new landscape of natural science. How was this possible? How could a bunch of twenty-somethings succeed in seizing the future? In Aesthetics, Industry, and Science M. Norton Wise answers these questions not simply from a technical perspective of theories and practices but with a broader cultural view of what was happening in Berlin at the time. He emphasizes in particular how rapid industrial development, military modernization, and the neoclassical aesthetics of contemporary art informed the ways in which these young men thought. Wise argues that aesthetic sensibility and material aspiration in this period were intimately linked, and he uses these two themes for a final reappraisal of Helmholtz’s early work. Anyone interested in modern German cultural history, or the history of nineteenth-century German science, will be drawn to this landmark book.

Author : Henry Noble Day
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : History
ISBN : UOMDLP:afy6752:0001.001

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The Science of Aesthetics by Henry Noble Day Pdf

Author : Henry Noble Day
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UCAL:$B285882

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The Science of Aesthetics, Or, The Nature, Kinds, Laws, and Uses of Beauty by Henry Noble Day Pdf

Author : John Bascom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : OCLC:1048956434

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Æsthetics by John Bascom Pdf

Author : Norman Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0764344129

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Hidden Beauty by Norman Barker Pdf

"The appreciation of the imagery produced by disease is bittersweet; we simultaneously experience the beauty of the natural world and the pain of those living with these disease processes. Ultimately, this series of images from more than sixty medical science professionals will leave the viewer with an understanding and appreciation of visual beauty inherent within the field."--Jacket.

Author : Benedetto Croce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351288989

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Aesthetic by Benedetto Croce Pdf

Benedetto Croce is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His work in aesthetics and historiography has been controversial, but enduring. When the first edition of ^Esthetic appeared in 1902, Croce was seen as foremost in reasserting an idealistic philosophy, which despite its source in continental idealists from Descartes to Hegel, offers a system that attempts to account for the emergence of scientific systems. Croce thus combines scientific and metaphysical thought into a dynamic aesthetic. Croce regards aesthetics not merely as a branch of philosophy, but as a fundamental human activity. It is inseparable from historical, psychological, political, economic, and moral considerations, no less than a unique frame of artistic reference. Aesthetic is composed of two parts: Part One concentrates on aesthetic theory and practice. Among the topics it covers are: intuition and expression, art and philosophy, historicism and intellectualism, and beauty in nature and in art. Part Two is devoted to the history of aesthetics. Croce analyzes such subjects as: aesthetic ideas in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Giambattista Vico as the inventor of aesthetic science, the philosophy of language, and aesthetic psychologism. In his new introduction to a classic translation, John McCormick assesses Croce's influence in aesthetic theory and historiography. He notes that the republication of this work is an overdue appreciation of a singular effort to resolve the classic questions of the philosophy of art, art for its own sake and art as a social enterprise; both find a place in Croce's system.

Author : Alexander Wragge-Morley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226680866

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Aesthetic Science by Alexander Wragge-Morley Pdf

The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it really was. In Aesthetic Science, Alexander Wragge-Morley challenges this interpretation by arguing that key figures such as John Ray, Robert Boyle, Nehemiah Grew, Robert Hooke, and Thomas Willis saw the study of nature as an aesthetic project. To show how early modern naturalists conceived of the interplay between sensory experience and the production of knowledge, Aesthetic Science explores natural-historical and anatomical works of the Royal Society through the lens of the aesthetic. By underscoring the importance of subjective experience to the communication of knowledge about nature, Wragge-Morley offers a groundbreaking reconsideration of scientific representation in the early modern period and brings to light the hitherto overlooked role of aesthetic experience in the history of the empirical sciences.

Author : W. J. T. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226565842

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Image Science by W. J. T. Mitchell Pdf

Almost thirty years ago, W.J.T. Mitchell's 'Iconology' helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Mitchell's now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial turn, the image/picture distinction, the metapicture, and the biopicture. These key concepts imply an approach to images as true objects of investigation-an 'image science.' Continuing with this influential line of thought, 'Image Science' gathers Mitchell's most recent essays on media aesthetics, visual culture, and artistic symbolism. The chapters delve into such topics as the physics and biology of images, digital photography and realism, architecture and new media, and the occupation of space in contemporary popular uprisings.