ABSTRACT
Adrian Currie asks how we should conceive of aesthetic judgement, value, and sensibility as they pertain to science, with an eye towards expanding the aesthetics of science beyond the consideration of the properties of theories. This chapter develops a notion of an “aesthetic culture” and draws two questions about such cultures. First, whether these cultures are primarily driven by aesthetic or epistemic factors; second, asking after the homogeneity and stability of aesthetic cultures. Currie argues that disputes regarding these questions should be answered by examining what he calls “the objects and processes of aesthetic regard”.
