The enhanced indispensability argument: representational versus explanatory role of mathematics in science

DOI10.1093/BJPS/AXQ029MaRDI QIDQ3012302zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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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