Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art: Bringing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Science Together

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1 Methodological lessons for the integration of philosophy of scienceand aesthetics: The case of representation
	1 Introduction
	2 Three constraints on the relation between scientific and artistic representation
	3 Methodological lessons for the integration
	4 Concluding remarks
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2 Nature’s handmaid, art
	1 Introduction
	2 Exemplification
	3 Fictions in science and art
	4 Models
	5 Coda
	Note
	References
Chapter 3 Of barrels and pipes: Representation-as in art and science
	1 Introduction
	2 Goodman and Elgin’s analysis of representation-as
	3 The DEKI account
	4 Non-concrete objects
	5 Representation in art and science
	6 Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4 Is Captain Kirk a natural blonde?: Do X-ray crystallographers dream of electron clouds? Comparing model-based inferences in science with fiction
	1 Introduction: science and fiction
	2 Context and argument: the problem of representation
	3 The case of X-ray crystallography
	4 Integrative pluralism as a representational requirement in scientific practice
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 5 Interpreting the sciences, interpreting the arts
	1 Introduction
	2 Interpretation: the sciences and the arts
	3 Ontology: the sciences and the arts
	4 Seeing and imagining in fiction and film
	5 Seeing and imagining in the sciences
	6 Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	References
Chapter 6 Deep indeterminacy in physics and fiction
	1 Introduction
	2 The challenges of deep indeterminacy
	3 Modelling deep indeterminacy
	4 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7 Some philosophical problems of music theory (and some music-theoretic problems of philosophy)
	1 Introduction
	2 Elements of musical structure
	3 Theories and models of musical structure
	4 Musical reality
	5 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8 Kant on beauty and cognition
	1 Introduction
	2 The possibility of a beautiful cognition
	3 Kant’s supposed rationalist model of cognition
	4 The epistemic function of aesthetic reflection
	5 The aesthetic dimension of cognition
	6 Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
Chapter 9 Epistemology as fiction
	1 Introduction
	2 Eliminativism and epistemology
	3 Extended cognition
	4 Mental fictionalism
	5 Epistemology as fiction
	6 Conclusion
	Note
	References
Chapter 10 Art, science and abstract artefacts
	1 Introduction
	2 Models as abstract entities
	3 The surprising life of a World 3 entity
	4 Models and theories as abstract artefacts
	5 Multiple discovery and modal flexibility
	6 Persistence
	7 Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Index