| Description |
viii, 319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 182 |
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Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 182
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| Contents |
Preface / Alfred I. Tauber -- Introduction / Alfred I. Tauber -- The Aesthetic Construction of Darwin's Theory / David Kohn -- The Sciences and Arts Share a Common Creative Aesthetic / Robert S. Root-Bernstein -- Beautiful Experiments in the Life Sciences / Frederic L. Holmes -- Abstract Painting and Astronomical Image Processing / Michael Lynch and Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr. -- Looking at Embryos: The Visual and Conceptual Aesthetics of Emerging Form / Scott F. Gilbert and Marion Faber -- Form and Function in the Molecularization of Biology / Sahotra Sarkar -- Scientists' Aesthetic Preferences Among Theories: Conservative Factors in Revolutionary Crises / James W. McAllister -- Objectivity: False Leads from T. S. Kuhn on the Role of the Aesthetic in the Sciences / Joseph Margolis -- Kant and the Aesthetic-Expressive Vision of Mathematics / Leon Chernyak and David Kazhdan |
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Physics as an Art: The German Tradition and the Symbolic Turn in Philosophy, History of Art and Natural Science in the 1920s / Catherine Chevalley -- Intersections of Art and Science to Create Aesthetic Perception: The Problem of Postmodernism / Alicia Craig Faxon -- The Art of Displaying Science: Museum Exhibitions / Hilde Hein -- From Descartes' Dream to Husserl's Nightmare / Alfred I. Tauber |
| Notes |
Originally published: 1996 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art and science.
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Science -- Aesthetics.
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| Author |
Tauber, Alfred I.
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| LC no. |
95026537 |
| ISBN |
0792339045 (acid free paper) |
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0792347633 (paperback) |
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