The explanatory dispensability of idealizations.

Enhanced indispensability arguments seek to establish realism about mathematics based on the explanatory role that mathematics plays in science. Idealizations pose a problem for such arguments. Idealizations, in a similar way to mathematics, boost the explanatory credentials of our best scientific t...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 193; no. 2; pp. 365 - 387
Autor principal: Baron, Sam
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Feb2016
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