id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_4ae4ojriljenxprv7xeke46zmm Ian O'Loughlin The Aesthetics of Theory Selection and the Logics of Art 2019 31 .pdf application/pdf 9072 538 52 Philosophers of science discuss whether theory selection depends on aesthetic judgments or criteria, been devoted to understanding the role that aesthetic judgments play in theory selection is not clear whether this language tracks genuinely aesthetic judgments that drive theory selection understand how aesthetic judgments can play a legitimate role in theory selection. judgments of beauty to include considerations of the philosophy of art (Kelly 1998, Sheppard 1987, science as aesthetic—play a genuinely aesthetic role familiar from art contexts, thus denying the epistemic reduction while also preserving a meaningful role for aesthetic judgments in science. of art theorists who characterize aesthetic judgment in terms of appreciation for internally coherent, reason to look beyond simplicity and symmetry in searching for the role of aesthetic judgments in aesthetic judgments that draw upon some of the same criteria employed in theory selection in elements of theory selection are aesthetic in a way that is not reducible to epistemic criteria and ./cache/work_4ae4ojriljenxprv7xeke46zmm.pdf ./txt/work_4ae4ojriljenxprv7xeke46zmm.txt