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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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 193; no. 2; pp. 365 - 387
Main Author:	Baron, Sam
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Feb2016
Subjects:	Idealism Philosophy of mathematics Explanation Counterfactuals (Logic) Mathematical symmetry
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost