Form and Content: A Defense of Aesthetic Value in Science

Murphy, Alice

doi:10.1017/psa.2023.46

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“…Suppose two thought experiments narrate identical content, but their narrative form differs. In line with Velleman's idea, aesthetically and literarily successful thought experiments give a sharper focus and a better grasp of their puzzle, while clumsy ones might fail to do so (Stuart 2016;Murphy 2020aMurphy , 2023. A successful thought experiment lays the shortest path toward the issue at its heart, provides a unique vantage point at a paradox and essentially captures something truly surprising and curious (French and Murphy 2021).…”

Section: The Sense Of Coherence and Scientific Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…In this view, aesthetic and literary qualities of thought experiments can be seen as a proper component of their cognitive content (Arcangeli 2010(Arcangeli , 2021Meynell 2017;Murphy 2020a). These qualities help thought experiments do their epistemic job, such as increasing understanding or sparking an insight (Meynell 2014;Murphy 2020bMurphy , 2023.…”

Section: The Sense Of Coherence and Scientific Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One can get easily puzzled what to make of Paul Dirac's statements that a beautiful theory is necessarily true. One way aesthetic judgements in science can be defensible is through their potential link to achievements of understanding (Breitenbach 2020; Ivanova 2020; Murphy 2023).…”

Section: Emotions In Science: Six Themesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Emotions in scientific practice

Kozlov

2023

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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For a long time, emotions were seen as incompatible with rationality and objectivity of science, and so were a marginal topic in the philosophy of science. This trend has changed progressively since it was determined that objectivity is much linked to social factors while rationality can't do without emotions. As a result, emotions are now slowly finding their way into our understanding of what science is. Here, I make an overview of some aspects of science where emotions and scientific reasoning seem to come into tight contact. For my survey, I will consider such themes as scientific motivation, scientific evaluations, scientific explanations, scientific understanding, scientific imagination, and coherence in science.Using these examples, I discuss the epistemic role of emotions in scientific progress. In conclusion, I advocate for a nuanced view of emotions in science as values that contribute to both epistemic and humanistic dimensions of science.

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Emotions in scientific practice

Kozlov

2023

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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“…Science is vital for human existence (French & Murphy, 2023). Strengthening Science education plays the key role for accelerating technological advances and scientific research and innovation (Murphy, 2023).…”

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Reorganizing the Structure of Indian School Science Education with reference to Committees and Commissions

Dash,

Bhoi

2023

Int. J. Multidiscipline. Approach. Res. Sci.

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National Policy on Education reiterated the integration of India’s culture and heritage with scientific thinking and scientific discoveries. Imparting formal education has enormously changed over the years in India with integration of science education in the curriculum and emergence of the idea of digitalization of education. Scientific progress brings about amelioration of individual and social development. For scientific progress to occur, not only the science research centres should be expanded and developed but fundamentally the schools, colleges and universities imparting science education must be strengthened in quality. This article discusses in retrospect, about the referring to the recommendations of various committees and commissions of pre and post independence period, in attempt to provide a comprehensive picture of development of a holistic education system in India .

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Scientific experiments beyond surprise and beauty

Kozlov

2023

Euro Jnl Phil Sci

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Some experimental results in science are productively surprising or beautiful. Such results are disruptive in their epistemic nature: by violating epistemic expectations they mark the phenomenon at hand as worthy of further investigation. Could it be that there are emotions beyond these two which are also useful for the epistemic evaluation of scientific experiments? Here, I conduct a structured sociological survey to explore affective experiences in scientific experimental research. I identify that learning the results of an experiment is the high emotional point in the experimenting process. Thus, experimental results can be challenging, beautiful, or boring, and they can worry, amuse, make one sad, and so on. They can also drive meta-cognitive evaluations as well as motivate specific research-related actions. From this, I advance two claims: that emotions beyond surprise and disruptive beauty are epistemically useful in empirical research, and that emotions help to overcome specific challenges of reasoning about new experimental results.

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Form and Content: A Defense of Aesthetic Value in Science

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Emotions in scientific practice

Emotions in scientific practice

Reorganizing the Structure of Indian School Science Education with reference to Committees and Commissions

Scientific experiments beyond surprise and beauty

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