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Recent work on aesthetics of science

Pages 7-11 | Published online: 21 Jul 2010

  • AERTS , D. , MATHIJS , E. and MOSSELMAN , B. , eds. 1999 . Science and Art , Dordrecht : Kluwer .
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  • DASTON , L. and PARK , K. 1998 . Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 , New York : Zone Books .
  • DAVIES , D. 1998 . McAllister's aesthetics in science: a critical notice . International Studies in the Philosophy of Science , 12 : 25 – 32 .
  • DURAND , S. 1994 . L'Esthétique scientifique: commentaire sur la Grande Unification . Horizons Philosophiques , 5 : 31 – 46 .
  • ELGIN , C.Z. 1996 . Considered Judgment , Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press .
  • EMMER , M. , ed. 1993 . The Visual Mind: Art and Mathematics , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
  • ENGLER , G. 2001 . Quantum field theories and aesthetic disparity . International Studies in the Philosophy of Science , 15 : 51 – 63 .
  • FISCHER , E.P. 1999 . Beauty and the Beast: The Aesthetic Moment in Science , Edited by: Oehlkers , E. New York : Plenum .
  • FLANNERY , M.C. 1992 . Biology is beautiful . Perspectives in Biology and Medicine , 35 : 422 – 435 .
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  • FUDGE , R.S. 2001 . Imagination and the science-based appreciation of unscenic nature . Journal of Aesthetics and An Criticism , 59 : 275 – 285 .
  • GALISON , P. 1998 . “ Judgment against objectivity ” . Edited by: JONES and GALISON . 327 – 359 . (1998)
  • GILBERT , S.F. and FABER , M. 1996 . “ Looking at embryos: the visual and conceptual aesthetics of emerging form ” . Edited by: TAUBER . 125 – 151 . (1996)
  • GRÜNFELD , J. 2000 . Soft Logic: The Epistemic Role of Aesthetic Criteria , Lanham, MD : University Press of America .
  • GUPTA , K.C. , ed. 1996 . Aesthetics and Motivations in Arts and Science , New Delhi : New Age International .
  • HOLMES , F.L. 2001 . Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA: A History of the "Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology" , New Haven, CT : Yale University Press .
  • JARDINE , N. 2000 . The Scenes of Inquiry: On the Reality of Questions in the Sciences, , 2nd edn , Oxford : Clarendon Press .
  • JONES , C.A. and GALISON , P. , eds. 1998 . Picturing Science, Producing Art , New York : Routledge .
  • KEMP , M. 2000 . Visualizations: The "Nature" Book of Art and Science , Oxford : Oxford University Press .
  • KOHN , D. 1996 . “ The aesthetic construction of Darwin's theory ” . Edited by: TAUBER . 13 – 48 . (1996)
  • KUIPERS , T.A.F. in press . Beauty, a road to the truth? . Synthese ,
  • MAINZER , K. 1995 . Symmetry and beauty in arts and mathematical sciences . Physis , 32 : 91 – 103 .
  • MAYNARD SMITH , J. 1999 . Too good to be true . Nature , 400 : 223
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  • McALLISTER , J.W. 1996 . Beauty and Revolution in Science , Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press .
  • McALLISTER , J.W. 1998 . Is beauty a sign of truth in scientific theories? . American Scientist , 86 : 174 – 183 .
  • McALLISTER , J.W. “ Mathematical beauty and the evolution of the standards of mathematical proof ” . In The Visual Mind 2 , Edited by: EMMER , M. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . (in press)
  • McALLISTER, J.W. (in preparation) Emotions, rationality, and decision making in science.
  • MILLER , A.I. 1996 . Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and An , New York : Copernicus .
  • MOSER , S. 1998 . Ancestral Images: The Iconography of Human Origins , Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press .
  • PANG , A. 1998 . “ Technology, aesthetics, and the development of astrophotography at the Lick Observatory ” . In Inscribing Science: Scientific Texts and the Materiality of Communication , Edited by: LENOIR , T. 223 – 248 . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press .
  • PARSONS , G.G. and RUEGER , A. 2000 . The epistemic significance of appreciating experiments aesthetically . British Journal of Aesthetics , 40 : 407 – 423 .
  • REEVES , E. 1997 . Painting the Heavens: Art and Science in the Age of Galileo , Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press .
  • REGT , HAV. DE . 1998 . Explaining the splendour of science . Studies in History and Philosophy of Science , 29 : 155 – 165 .
  • ROTA , G.-C. 1997 . The phenomenology of mathematical beauty . Synthese , 111 : 172 – 182 .
  • RUEGER , A. 1997 . Experiments, nature and aesthetic experience in the eighteenth century . British Journal of Aesthetics , 37 : 305 – 322 .
  • SARKAR , S. 1996 . “ Form and function in the molecularization of biology ” . Edited by: TAUBER . 153 – 168 . (1996)
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  • THAGARD , P. “ The passionate scientist: emotion in scientific cognition ” . In The Cognitive Basis of Science , Edited by: CARRUTHERS , P. , STICH , S. and SlEGAL , M. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . (in press)
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  • WARTOFSKY , M.W. 1994 . Science and art: heuristic and aesthetic dimensions of scientific discovery . Philosophic Exchange , 24/25 : 5 – 12 .
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