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120Marco Panza and Andrea Sereni. Plato's Problem: An Introduction to Mathematical Platonism. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN 978-0-230-36548-3 (hbk); 978-0-230-36549-0 (pbk); 978-1-13726147-2 (e-book); 978-1-13729813-3 (pdf). Pp. xi + 306 (review)Philosophia Mathematica (1). 2013.
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55The rational and the socialRoutledge. 1989.THE SOCIOLOGICAL TURN The problem we are concerned with is just this: How should we understand science? Are we to account for scientific knowledge (or ...
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68D avid B ostock . Philosophy of mathematics: An introductionPhilosophia Mathematica 18 (1): 127-129. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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66Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind (review)International Philosophical Quarterly 23 (2): 226-227. 1983.
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43Realism, Miracles, and the Common CausePSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1982. 1982.The principle of the common cause, which gets its justification from the miracle arguments, probably constitutes the best reason for being a scientific realist. However, results in quantum mechanics steming from the work of Bell raise difficulties which anti-realists have been quick to seize. The author tries to overcome the problem and save scientific realism by reformulating the principle of the common cause so that a distinction is made between a priori and a posteriori correlations.
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33Platonic explanation: Or, what abstract entities can do for youInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 3 (1). 1988.(1988). Platonic explanation: Or, what abstract entities can do for you. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 51-67. doi: 10.1080/02698598808573324
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186What is a definition?Foundations of Science 3 (1): 111-132. 1998.According to the standard view of definition, all defined terms are mere stipulations, based on a small set of primitive terms. After a brief review of the Hilbert-Frege debate, this paper goes on to challenge the standard view in a number of ways. Examples from graph theory, for example, suggest that some key definitions stem from the way graphs are presented diagramatically and do not fit the standard view. Lakatos's account is also discussed, since he provides further examples that suggest ma…Read more
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118John D. Barrow, Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and BeingPhilosophia Mathematica 2 (3): 251-251. 1994.
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59Newton's bucket, Einstein's elevator, Schrödinger's cat – these are some of the best-known examples of thought experiments in the natural sciences. But what function do these experiments perform? Are they really experiments at all? Can they help us gain a greater understanding of the natural world? How is it possible that we can learn new things just by thinking? In this revised and updated new edition of his classic text _The Laboratory of the Mind_, James Robert Brown continues to defend aprio…Read more
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University of Toronto, St. George CampusDepartment of Philosophy
Institute for the History and Philosophy of ScienceRetired faculty
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |