Mathematical Explanation in Science
By Alan Baker. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2009
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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, History and Philosophy of Science
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- What Is the Benacerraf Problem (2016, background): “See, for instance, Baker (2009), and Lyon and Colyvan (2008). 28. For more on evolutionary examples like this, see Braddock et al. (2012). I argue that, despite appearances, the contents of our mathematical beliefs do not explain our having them in Clarke-Doane (2012): Sect. III. 29. For more on thi”
- Mathematical Explanations Of Empirical Facts, And Mathematical Realism (2012, background): “He improves the original Quine-Putnam argument—later calling it an enhanced indispensability argument [Baker 2009: 613]—by replacing (QP1) with: (B1) We ought to be committed to the existence of all and only the entities that are explanatorily indispensable to our best scientific theories.”