Epistemic Engagement, Aesthetic Value & Scientific Practice

Epistemic Value

The value turn has numerous motivations; I’ll discuss three of them. The first of these motivations consists in the ancient roots of the idea that epistemology is in some important way value-theoretic. Plato and Aristotle both took epistemic states such as knowledge and understanding to have particular and distinctive value. So too did their immediate and medieval followers (Zagzebski 2001). Th...

THE BEAUTY OF SYMMETRICAL DESIGN: THE ALLEGED EPISTEMIC ROLE OF AESTHETIC VALUE IN THEORETICAL SCIENCE By

Emotion and Aesthetic Value

Aesthetics is a normative domain. We evaluate artworks as better or worse, good or bad, great or grim. I will refer to a positive appraisal of an artwork as an aesthetic appreciation of that work, and I refer to a negative appraisal as aesthetic depreciation. (I will often drop the word " aesthetic. ") There has been considerable amount of work on what makes an artwork worthy of appreciation, a...

Investigating the Aesthetic Value of Allameh Tabatabai

In this article, by examining the artistic beauty and explaining the elements of artistic beauty from the point of view of Allameh Tabatabai, one can provide a correct explanation of the order of existence of artistic value. Using the rational-analytic method, we examine the theory of aesthetics from the perspective of Allameh in order to clarify Allameh’s objectivism in the philosophy of art....

Pragmatic Encroachment and Epistemic Value

Does knowledge matter ? There are actually at least two questions behind this broad one. The first is whether the value of knowledge is independent from other epistemic values, such as the value of truth, or the value of having true beliefs. The second is whether knowledge, as an epistemic value is independent from other values, such as the good or freedom, which are practical or ethical values...