This Element answers four questions. Can any traditional theory of scientific explanation
make sense of the place of mathematics in explanation? If traditional monist theories are …

Can an ugly experiment be a good experiment? Philosophers have identified many beautiful
experiments and explored ways in which their beauty might be connected to their epistemic …

The aesthetic judgment of an artifact is usually interpreted as an assessment of the artifact's
sensory properties. But an artifact can also be appreciated, and still aesthetically, for the way …

Recent attempts at defining mathematical beauty fall roughly into two schools of thought.
One takes its starting point in the subjective experience of the mathematician and …

Theory and discourse suggest that the aesthetic appreciation of a wide range of artifacts—
including works of art and consumer products—is partially governed by the principle of …

The first mathematics house in Iran was established in Isfahan in 1999 to inform the young
students in this great historical and cultural city about the history, the beauty, the importance …

While the deus ex machina—the “God in the machine”—began as a formal and explicit
procedure in Classical drama and has, in this capacity, become more invisible in …

This chapter embodies a form of “mathematical criticism” that is similar in spirit to that
advocated by Imre Lakatos over forty years ago. In essence, it contends that mathematical …

The use of the deus ex machina in modern films is examined in this article. The deus ex
machina is a device which is sometimes brought into play in a story as a last-resort effort to …

The author discusses the claim of mathematics teacher Omid Ali Shehni Karamzadeh that
John Conway, a mathematician, has used a Deus ex Machina or the isosceles trick in …