“Form and Content: A Defence of Aesthetic Value in Science”

Abstract Those who wish to defend the role of aesthetic values in science face a dilemma: language is either used metaphorically for what are ultimately epistemic features, or it literally, but importance such unclear. This article introduces new account that gets around this problem by considering an overlooked source value science: relation between form and content. A fit content thought experiment way which formulated can have important payoffs contributing scientific understanding.