Which explanatory role for mathematics in scientific models? Reply to 'The Explanatory Dispensability of Idealizations'.

In The Explanatory Dispensability of Idealizations, Sam Baron suggests a possible strategy enabling the indispensability argument to break the symmetry between mathematical claims and idealization assumptions in scientific models. Baron's distinction between mathematical and non-mathematical idealiz...

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Publicado en:	Synthese Vol. 193; no. 2; pp. 387 - 402
Autor principal:	Bianchi, Silvia
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Nature Feb2016
Materias:	Philosophy of mathematics Idealism Expression (Philosophy) Baron, Sam Model theory
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