The Enhanced Indispensability Argument: Representational versus Explanatory Role of Mathematics in Science

DOI10.1093/BJPS/AXQ029zbMath1217.00010OpenAlexW2156556269MaRDI QIDQ3012302

Juha T. Saatsi

Publication date: 6 July 2011

Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axq029

zbMATH Keywords

indispensability argumentmathematical Platonismscientific explanations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

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