Aidan Lyon

History and Philosophy of Science · 2007–2014

A researcher in the Science corpus: 3 papers; trusts 4 researchers and is trusted by 3 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• History and Philosophy of Science — 7 citations into it; #250 of 602 by trust here, #244 by citations

Whom Aidan Lyon trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. Mark Colyvan
2. Alan Baker
3. Marc Lange
4. Vladimir E. Bening
5. E. Limpert
6. Peter M. Visscher

Who trusts Aidan Lyon overall

1. Christopher Pincock
2. S. Piantadosi
3. Justin Clarke‐Doane
4. J. D. de Winter

Papers from Aidan Lyon's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Aidan Lyon trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. The Indispensability of Mathematics
2. Why proofs by mathematical induction are generally not explanatory
3. Assumption-Free Estimation of Heritability from Genome-Wide Identity-by-Descent Sharing between Full Siblings (PLoS Genetics)
4. MATHEMATICAL EXPLANATION AND INDISPENSABILITY ARGUMENTS
5. The Explanatory Power of Phase Spaces
6. Philosophy and our Mental Life
7. Mathematics and Aesthetic Considerations in Science
8. Mathematical Explanation in Science (British Journal for the Philosophy of Science)
9. Log-normal Distributions across the Sciences: Keys and Clues
10. Why are there so few afforestation and reforestation Clean Development Mechanism projects

Their papers

• Why are Normal Distributions Normal? (2014) — 189 citations
• Mathematical Explanations Of Empirical Facts, And Mathematical Realism (2012) — 95 citations
• The Explanatory Power of Phase Spaces (2007) — 150 citations