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Carte Mathematics and Scientific Representation Christopher Pincock

Mathematics and Scientific Representation

Autor: Christopher Pincock
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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Mathematics plays a central role in much of contemporary science, but philosophers have struggled to...

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Autor
Christopher Pincock
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2011
Pagini
352
EAN
9780199757107
ISBN
0199757100
Enbook ID
04535668
Editura
OXFORD UNIV PR
Greutate
600
Dimensiuni
241 x 160 x 18

Descriere completă

Mathematics plays a central role in much of contemporary science, but philosophers have struggled to understand what this role is or how significant it might be for mathematics and science. In this book Christopher Pincock tackles this perennial question in a new way by asking how mathematics contributes to the success of our best scientific representations. In the first part of the book this question is posed and sharpened using a proposal for how we can determine the content of a scientific representation. Several different sorts of contributions from mathematics are then articulated. Pincock argues that each contribution can be understood as broadly epistemic, so that what mathematics ultimately contributes to science is best connected with our scientific knowledge. In the second part of the book, Pincock critically evaluates alternative approaches to the role of mathematics in science. These include the potential benefits for scientific discovery and scientific explanation. A major focus of this part of the book is the indispensability argument for mathematical platonism. Using the results of part one, Pincock argues that this argument can at best support a weak form of realism about the truth-value of the statements of mathematics. The book concludes with a chapter on pure mathematics and the remaining options for making sense of its interpretation and epistemology. Thoroughly grounded in case studies drawn from scientific practice, this book aims to bring together current debates in both the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of science and to demonstrate the philosophical importance of applications of mathematics.

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