AESTHETIC INTUITION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE
Identifying the nature of the connection between aesthetic experience and rational thinking is necessary for solving a number of topical problems in the philosophy of science, for example, the problem of changing scientific paradigms, the formation of a scientific picture of the world, etc. It is a common fact in philosophy of science, that numerous non-scientific factors influence scientific thinking. The influence of aesthetic attitudes on the scientific picture of the world and the scientific paradigm itself has been repeatedly described by various researchers of science. Objective: describe manifestations of esthetical intuition in a process of scientific research. Methods: comparative analysis, philosophic generalization, interpretation. Result: process of esthetical factors influence on scientific research is double-natured. On the one hand it is influenced by subject’s old ideology and esthetical preferences, on the other hand it is influenced by new esthetical intuition of the same subject.