Beauty and Revolution in Science / / James W. McAllister.
Explaining why he embraced the theory of relativity, the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist P. A. M. Dirac stated, "It is the essential beauty of the theory which I feel is the real reason for believing in it." How reasonable and rational can science be when its practitioners speak...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Two Challenges to Rationalism
- 2. Abstract Entities and Aesthetic Evaluations
- 3. The Aesthetic Properties of Scientific Theories
- 4. Two Erroneous Views of Scientists' Aesthetic Judgments
- 5. The Inductive Construction of Aesthetic Preference
- 6. The Relation of Beauty to Truth
- 7. A Study of Simplicity
- 8. Revolution as Aesthetic Rupture
- 9. Induction and Revolution in the Applied Arts
- 10. Circles and Ellipses in Astronomy
- 11. Continuity and Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
- 12. Rational Reasons for Aesthetic Choices
- References
- Index