Aesthetic Feelings in Scientific Reasoning.

Scientists regularly invoke broadly aesthetic properties like elegance and simplicity when evaluating theories, but why should we expect aesthetic pleasure to signal an epistemic good? I argue that aesthetic judgements in science are best understood as a special case of affective cognition, and that...

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Publicado en:	Teorema Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 5 - 28
Autor principal:	Miyata-Sturm, Mariona E.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Teorema 2024
Materias:	Aesthetics Emotions Metacognition Self-perception Cognition Heuristic Pleasure Affect (Psychology)
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