Mark Povich

Rules to Infinity (eBook, ePUB)

The Normative Role of Mathematics in Scientific Explanation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rules to Infinity defends the thesis that mathematics contributes to the explanatory power of science by expressing conceptual rules that allow for the transformation of empirical descriptions. It claims that mathematics should not be thought of as describing, in any substantive sense, an abstract realm of eternal mathematical objects, as traditional Platonists have thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197679012
• Artikelnr.: 72301641

Autorenporträt

Mark Povich is Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy at University of Rochester. He has published articles in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Erkenntnis, Mind, Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Synthese, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction: Scientific Explanation, Mathematics, and Metaontology
Chapter 2. Distinctively Mathematical Explanation
Chapter 3. Renormalization Group Explanation
Chapter 4. The Narrow Ontic Counterfactual Account
Chapter 5. Deflating the Narrow Ontic Counterfactual Account
Chapter 6. Semantics, Metasemantics, and Function
Chapter 7. The Content of a Mathematical Model
Chapter 8. Normativism and its Rivals
Chapter 9. Conclusion
References
Index