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

DOI10.1007/S11229-015-0795-0zbMath1358.00095OpenAlexW655852838MaRDI QIDQ516219

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

zbMATH Keywords

explanationmathematicsscientific modelsdifference-makingidealization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Related Items (1)

Infinitesimal idealization, easy road nominalism, and fractional quantum statistics

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