Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Institute of Philosophy
- Code
- BMI-LOTD-315E.05
- Title
- Philosophy of mathematics I: Beauty and Understanding in Science
- Usual semester
- Spring
- ECTS
- 4
- Language
- hu
- Learning outcomes
- Beauty and understanding in science "Science and aesthetics are strangers to each other," begins Ulinov Montano his paper published just under a decade ago. At first glance, we really do have good reason to agree with him. The former is fundamentally an epistemic endeavor that strives to describe our world as accurately and factually as possible. The latter works on the creative, artistic representation of our experiences, desires. However, we cannot ignore the fact that scientific work, research, experiments, and the development of theories are often subjected to aesthetic evaluations. We hear countless scientists raving about the beauty of a scientific statement or struggling to untangle a mess of threads that are ultimately impossible to follow. This phenomenon has recently attracted the interest of many thinkers in contemporary philosophy of science. Some philosophers, such as James McAllister, believe that we have good reason to think that beauty and truth are closely and significantly related. Other authors suggest aesthetic properties play a crucial role in scientific understanding. The aim of the seminar is to examine these contemporary questions in the philosophy of science and epistemology. The seminar is held in Hungarian, however reading comprehension of technical texts in English is required.