Paleoaesthetics and the Practice of Paleontology Paperback / softback
by Derek D. (Connecticut College) Turner
Part of the Elements in the Philosophy of Biology series
Paperback / softback
Description
The practice of paleontology has an aesthetic as well as an epistemic dimension.
Paleontology has distinctively aesthetic aims, such as cultivating sense of place and developing a better aesthetic appreciation of fossils.
Scientific cognitivists in environmental aesthetics argue that scientific knowledge deepens and enhances our appreciation of nature.
Drawing on that tradition, this Element argues that knowledge of something's history makes a difference to how we engage with it aesthetically.
This means that investigation of the deep past can contribute to aesthetic aims.
Aesthetic engagement with fossils and landscapes is also crucial to explaining paleontology's epistemic successes.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:75 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 10 Halftones, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and wh
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:24/10/2019
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- ISBN:9781108727822
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:75 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 10 Halftones, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and wh
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:24/10/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108727822
