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Indispensability of Mathematics.
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| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cary :
Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents""; ""1 Mathematics and Its Applications""; ""1.1 Realism and Anti-realism in Mathematics""; ""1.2 Indispensability Arguments""; ""1.3 The Road Ahead""; ""2 The Quinean Backdrop""; ""2.1 Introducing Naturalism""; ""2.2 Quinean Naturalism""; ""2.3 The Methodologies of Philosophy and Science""; ""2.4 The Causal Version of Naturalism""; ""2.5 Holism""; ""2.6 The First Premise Revisited""; ""3 The Eleatic Principle""; ""3.1 The Inductive Argument""; ""3.2 The Epistemic Argument""; ""3.3 The Argument from Causal Explanation""; ""3.4 Causal Relevance""
- ""3.5 Rejecting Inference to the Best Explanation""""3.6 The Content of Scientific Theories""; ""3.7 The Moral""; ""3.8 Recapitulation""; ""4 Field's Fictionalism""; ""4.1 The Science without Numbers Project""; ""4.2 What Is It to Be Indispensable?""; ""4.3 The Role of Confirmation Theory""; ""4.4 The Role of Mathematics in Physical Theories""; ""4.5 Review of Field's Fictionalism""; ""5 Maddy's Objections""; ""5.1 The Objections""; ""5.2 Maddy's Naturalism""; ""5.3 Defending the Indispensability Argument""; ""5.4 Review of Maddy's Objections""
- ""6 The Empirical Nature of Mathematical Knowledge""""6.1 The Obviousness of Some Mathematical Truth""; ""6.2 The Unfalsifiability of Mathematics""; ""6.3 The Sober Objection""; ""6.4 Is Mathematics Contingent?""; ""7 Conclusion""; ""7.1 What the Argument Doesn't Show""; ""7.2 The Benacerraf Challenges""; ""7.3 A Slippery Slope?""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""