Intrinsic Explanation and Field’s Dispensabilist Strategy.

Hartry Field defended the importance of his nominalist reformulation of Newtonian Gravitational Theory, as a response to the indispensability argument, on the basis of a general principle of intrinsic explanation. In this paper, I argue that this principle is not sufficiently defensible, and can not...

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Published in:	International Journal of Philosophical Studies Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 163 - 184
Main Author:	Marcus, Russell
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd May2013
Subjects:	Field, Hartry Nominalism Newton's law of gravitation Spacetime Mathematical reformulation
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