Which explanatory role for mathematics in scientific models? Reply to ``The explanatory dispensability of idealizations

DOI10.1007/S11229-015-0795-0zbMATH Open1358.00095OpenAlexW655852838MaRDI QIDQ516219FDOQ516219

Authors: Silvia De Bianchi 

Publication date: 14 March 2017

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0795-0

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zbMATH Keywords

mathematicsexplanationscientific modelsdifference-makingidealization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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