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SUMMARY:Epistemic engagement\, aesthetic value and scientific practice - A
 drian Currie (University of Exeter)
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CONTACT:Matt Farr
DESCRIPTION:I provide an account of the relationship between aesthetic sen
 sibility and knowledge\, with a focus on scientific practice. Cognitivist 
 accounts\, such as that recently defended by Derek Turner\, problematicall
 y conflate 'partial sensitivity' – the idea that aesthetic appreciation 
 partly depends on doxastic states – and factivity\, the idea that those 
 beliefs need to be true. Rejecting factivity\, I develop a notion of 'epis
 temic engagement': partaking genuinely in a knowledge-directed process of 
 coming to epistemic judgements\, and suggest that this better accommodates
  the relationship between the aesthetic and the epistemic. Scientific trai
 ning (and other epistemic-directed activities)\, I argue\, involve 'attune
 ment': the co-option of aesthetic judgements towards epistemic ends. This 
 view has consequences for the justification of aesthetic judgment in scien
 ce\, namely\, the locus of justification are those processes of attunement
 \, not the aesthetic judgements themselves.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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