Review of History of Philosophy of Science Books

Harmonizing philosophy of science: The Aesthetics of Science Milena Ivanova and Steven French (eds.),  The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding . New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2020, pp. viii + 214. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-367-14114-1. £120.00.  Both science and its philosophical understanding, namely the philosophy of science, are rich fields for the interested researcher. Scientific objects, scientific constructions, scientific practices, but even scientists themselves could be studied in many ways, utilizing different tools of various scientific fields. During the twentieth century ontological, epistemological and even moral questions dominated the interest of philosophers; thus the most important questions were always related to the truth or usefulness of theories. (Moral, sociological and cultural aspects of the scientific endeavor, in fact, became apparent and fertile only at a relatively later stage.)             Scientific issues, however, a