Science and Art The Red Book of `Einstein Meets Magritte' [Hardcover]

How do science, producing knowledge and technology, and art, producing revelations and sensations, confront each other? We have taken up the two myths of Albert Einstein and Ren? Magritte to address this question. The meeting between Einstein and Magritte is presented as an experiment, with which we hope to go beyond the many programmatical appeals, in order to cut across art and science. The experiment brings together scientists, artists and philosophers who have already - in their own distinctive ways - taken the path towards interdisciplinarity. This book presents their different attitudes, and encloses new perspectives and insights. The contributions have been written for a broad audience of scholars, students and anyone interested in the similarities between science and art.General Introduction; D. Aerts. Acknowledgements. Editorial Introduction: `Einstein meets Magritte' as a Forum for Communication; E. Mathijs, B. Mosselmans. Science, Art and Edification; D.M. Lechner. Similarity or Difference: the Case for Interdisciplinarity in Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Art & Aesthetics; B. Mosselmans, E. Mathijs. `Goethe' as the Meeting Place of `Einstein' and `Magritte'; P.J. Hiett. Andr? Breton Revisited: Once More about Science and Art; T. Romanovskaya. Knowledge Acquisition in Social Life and Art: the Case of Foucault's History of the Present; P. Baert. Heidegger and the Question of Physics, Art and Technics; E. Gianetto. Field Theory in Physics, Psychology and Art; K.W. Back. What's Wrong with this Picture? Towards a Systemological Philosophy of Science with Practice; D.H. McNeil, R.I. Flett. New Images from the Virtual Gallery of Mathematically Inspired Art; A. Barb?. Einstein l³w