The Metarepresentational Role of Mathematics in Scientific Explanations.
Several philosophers have argued that to capture the generality of certain scientific explanations, we must count mathematical facts among their explanantia. I argue that we can better understand these explanations by adopting a more nuanced stance toward mathematical representations , recognizing t...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 89; no. 4; pp. 742 - 761 |
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Cambridge University Press
Oct2022
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