Why is beauty a road to the truth?

Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 84 (1):365-370 (2005)
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This paper discusses Theo Kuipers' account of beauty and truth. It challenges Kuipers' psychological account of how scientists come to appreciate beautiful theories, as well as his attempt to justify the use of aesthetic criteria on the basis of a "meta-induction." I propose an alternative psychological/philosophical account based on emotional coherence.

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Conceptual Revolutions.Paul Thagard - 1992 - Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Beauty & revolution in science.James William McAllister - 1996 - Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Beauty and Revolution in Science.James W. Mcallister - 1999 - Philosophical Quarterly 49 (194):125-128.

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