TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turner,Derek D.
TI  - Paleoaesthetics and the practice of paleontology
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of biology,  2515-1126
SN  - 9781108671996 (ebook)
AV  - QE711.3 .T97 2019eb
U1  - 560 23
PY  - 0000///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  -  
KW  - Paleontology
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Nov 2019)
N2  - 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
UR  - http://libproxy.aucegypt.edu:2048/login?url=https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108671996
ER  -