| #2068110 in Books | Cornell University Press | 1999-09-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.01 x.69 x6.07l,.79 | File Name: 0801486254 | 248 pages |
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Worthy Effort|By Julian|McAllister needs to be credited with writing the only serious book on aesthetics in science. However, there are several working assumption in play throughout the work that need further elaboration, and his rationalism appears more in the end like an empiricism. Moreover, McAllister's historical case studies form science require critique by someone qua|From Library Journal|McAllister (philosophy, Univ. of Leiden) critically explores the influences that aesthetic judgments have on deciding which theories best account for natural phenomena. Given his own rationalist image of scientific practice, he gives priori
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 of "revolutions" in their thinking and extol certain theories for their "beauty"? James W. McAllister addresses this question with the first systematic study of the aesthetic evalua...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Beauty and Revolution in Science | James W. McAllister. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
