The symmetry of tensions between aesthetics and epistemology in philosophy of arts and science is rather striking. It is relatively agreed that the goal of arts is aesthetic appreciation while the goal of science is new knowledge and understanding. At the same time, it is a point of hot debate whether and how we truly learn from arts and whether and how aesthetics plays any serious role in science. Here we take a chance to discuss a variety of issues related to aesthetics of science using an interdisciplinary approach. What is a beautiful experiment? Is there a link between aesthetic emotions and cognition? What is the role of imagination in scientific practice? These are some of the questions we are going to address.
Speakers
Milena Ivanova (University of Cambridge) Ines Schindler (MPI for Empirical Aesthetics) Luana Poliseli (Konrad Lorenz Institute) Alice Murphy (LMU Munich) Anatolii Kozlov (University of Geneva) Canceled - Stacie Friend (University of London) The workshop is a part of the SNF SPARK-funded project "Scientific Beauty, Sublime, and Awe", CRSK-1_196500 (2020-2021). The sketch is made by the famous chronobiologist Colin Pittendrigh (from (Daan 2000)). |