PX - Science and Aesthetics with Alice Murphy

Philosophy Exchange Podcast

English - November 23, 2022 10:00 - 40 minutes - 35.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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In this episode we chat with Dr. Alice Murphy, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy. We asked her about her research on the role of aesthetics and aesthetic values in science, as well as the role of surprise in scientific thought experiments. The discussion brings us to explore the relation between aesthetic and epistemic values and the connection between these two types of values with the element of surprise of scientific investigation.