Indispensability and the problem of compatible explanations. A reply to `Should scientific realists be Platonists?'

DOI10.1007/S11229-015-0667-7MaRDI QIDQ516227zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Josh Hunt

Publication date 14 March 2017

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0667-7

zbMATH Keywords

underdeterminationinference to the best explanationenhanced indispensability argumentmathematical explanationmathematical nominalism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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