@ARTICLE{Łata_Magdalena_Is_2020,
 author={Łata, Magdalena and Łukasik, Andrzej},
 volume={Tom 8},
 number={Część 2},
 journal={Filozofia i Nauka},
 pages={115-134},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2020},
 publisher={Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN},
 publisher={Instytut filozofii UMCS},
 abstract={The article presents the main functions of aesthetic values (beauty, simplicity, symmetry) in the process of formulating, evaluating and accepting scientific theories in the work of physicist: 1) they motivate to undertake scientific research; (2) have a heuristic role which enables the direction of the search for a new theory to be selected; (3) are a criterion for choosing between empirically equivalent theories in the absence of empirical evidences and (4) sometimes constitute an epistemological obstacle. The basic thesis of the work is that aesthetic values, in addition to positive functions, also play a negative role in science, hindering the acceptance of new theories or leading to inefficient research. Too much weight on the aesthetic side of theory can pose a threat to the objectivity of scientific cognition.},
 type={Artykuły / Articles},
 title={Is truth always beautiful, that is, how aesthetic values can become an epistemological obstacle},
 URL={http://ochroma.man.poznan.pl/Content/117956/PDF-MASTER/7_Lata_Lukasik.pdf},
 keywords={beauty, symmetry, simplicity, true, epistemological obstacle, nonempirical criteria},
}