The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding 9780429638558, 0429638558

This volume builds on two recent developments in philosophy on the relationship between art and science: the notion of r

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The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding
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Philosophies of Art and Beauty is a thorough historical survey of philosophies of the arts. It provides descriptive anal

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In this book, Professor Anatoly Buchachenko gives a brief and informative description of the most striking achievements

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Images and text capture the astonishing beauty of the chemical processes that create snowflakes, bubbles, flames, and ot

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Kathryn B. Alexander argues that natural beauty is a source of religious insight into the need and way of salvation, and

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In the last few decades, literary critics have increasingly drawn insights from cognitive neuroscience to deepen and cla

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