The elusive synthesis: aesthetics and science

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Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers (1996)
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This collection of essays ranges from phenomenological descriptions of the beautiful in science to analytical explorations of the philosophical conjunction of ...

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Q175.32.A47.B67 vol. 182

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0792339045   0792347633   9780792339045   9780792347637
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Kant and the Aesthetic-Expressive Vision of Mathematics.Leon Chernyak & David Kazhdan
Physics as an art: the German tradition and the symbolic turn in philosophy, history of art and natural science in the 1920s.Catherine Chevalley
Looking at embryos: the visual and conceptual aesthetics of emerging form.Scott F. Gilbert & Marion Faber
The art of displaying science: Museum exhibitions.Hilde Hein
Beautiful Experiments in the Life Sciences.Frederic L. Holmes
The aesthetic construction of Darwin's theory.David Kohn
Objectivity: False leads from TS Kuhn on the role of the aesthetic in the sciences.Joseph Margolis
Scientists' Aesthetic Preferences Among Theories: Conservative Factors in Revolutionary Crises.James W. McAllister
The sciences and arts share a common creative aesthetic.Robert S. Root-Bernstein
Form and function in the molecularization of biology.Sahotra Sarkar
From Descartes' Dream to Husserl's Nightmare.Alfred I. Tauber

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