Mathematics and Scientific Representation

DOI10.1093/ACPROF:OSO/9780199757107.001.0001MaRDI QIDQ2937674zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christopher Pincock

Publication date 12 January 2015

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199757107.001.0001

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to mathematics in general (00-02) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

Cited in

(18)

• The silent hexagon: explaining comb structures
• A match not made in heaven: on the applicability of mathematics in physics
• Explanatory schema and the process of model building
• The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics: from Hamming to Wigner and back again
• The applicability of mathematics as a philosophical problem: mathematization as exploration
• Euler's Königsberg: the explanatory power of mathematics
• The future (and past) of quantum theory after the Higgs boson: a quantum-informational viewpoint
• Mathematical Explanation in Science
• The propensity interpretation of probability: a re-evaluation
• Indispensability and explanation: an overview and introduction
• Parsimony and inference to the best mathematical explanation
• Comments on ``Parsimony and inference to the best mathematical explanation
• Indispensability and the problem of compatible explanations. A reply to `Should scientific realists be Platonists?'
• Grounding and the indispensability argument
• Structure and Applicability
• Mathematical problem-solving in scientific practice
• Mathematical explanations in evolutionary biology or naturalism? A challenge for the statisticalist
• The epistemic benefits of generalisation in modelling. II: Expressive power and abstraction

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