The symmetry of tensions between aesthetics and epistemology in philosophy of arts and science is rather striking. It is generally agreed that one of the important outcomes of arts is its aesthetic appreciation while the important outcomes of science are new knowledge and understanding. At the same time, it is a point of hot debate whether and how we truly learn from arts and whether and how aesthetics plays any serious role in science (examples: [1], [2]).

In my research, I work towards isolating common cognitive and epistemic points at the interface between the science and arts. I then closely analyze them through the lens of existing debates in contemporary philosophy, specifically epistemology and aesthetics.

[1] M. García-Carpintero, “Introduction: Recent Debates on Learning from Fiction,” Teorema Rev. Int. Filos., vol. 35, no. 3

[2] M. Ivanova, “Aesthetic values in science,” Philos. Compass, vol. 12, no. 10