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764Circularities In The Contemporary Philosophical Accounts Of The Applicability Of Mathematics In The Physical UniverseRevista de Filosofie 61 (5): 517-542. 2015.Contemporary philosophical accounts of the applicability of mathematics in physical sciences and the empirical world are based on formalized relations between the mathematical structures and the physical systems they are supposed to represent within the models. Such relations were constructed both to ensure an adequate representation and to allow a justification of the validity of the mathematical models as means of scientific inference. This article puts in evidence the various circularities (l…Read more
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1388Mathematical models of games of chance: Epistemological taxonomy and potential in problem-gambling researchUNLV Gaming Research and Review Journal 19 (1): 17-30. 2015.Games of chance are developed in their physical consumer-ready form on the basis of mathematical models, which stand as the premises of their existence and represent their physical processes. There is a prevalence of statistical and probabilistic models in the interest of all parties involved in the study of gambling – researchers, game producers and operators, and players – while functional models are of interest more to math-inclined players than problem-gambling researchers. In this paper I p…Read more
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427The Current Epistemic Status of the Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of ScienceAnalele Universitatii Din Craiova 36 (2): 108-132. 2016.The predisposition of the Indispensability Argument to objections, rephrasing and versions associated with the various views in philosophy of mathematics grants it a special status of a “blueprint” type rather than a debatable theme in the philosophy of science. From this point of view, it follows that the Argument has more an epistemic character than ontological.
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319Rolul constitutiv al matematicii in stiinta structuralaInfarom. 2017.Problemele filosofie sensibile pe care le pune aplicabilitatea matematicii în ştiinţe şi viaţa de zi cu zi au conturat, pe un fond interdisciplinar, o nouă “ramură” a filosofiei ştiinţei, anume filosofia aplicabilităţii matematicii. Aplicarea cu succes a matematicii de-a lungul istoriei ştiinţei necesită reprezentare, încadrare, explicaţie, dar şi o justificare de ordin metateoretic a aplicabilităţii. Între rolurile matematicii în practica ştiinţifică, rolul constitutiv teoriilor ştiinţifice est…Read more
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419Lucrarea tratează unul dintre “misterele” filosofiei analitice şi ale raţionalităţii însăşi, anume aplicabilitatea matematicii în ştiinţe şi în investigarea matematică a realităţii înconjurătoare, a cărei filosofie este dezvoltată în jurul sintagmei – de acum paradigmatice – ‘eficacitatea iraţională a matematicii’, aparţinând fizicianului Eugene Wigner, problemă filosofică etichetată în literatură drept “puzzle-ul lui Wigner”. Odată intraţi în profunzimea acestei probleme, investigaţia nu trebui…Read more
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232The Nature of the Structures of Applied Mathematics and the Metatheoretical Justification for the Mathematical ModelingRomanian Journal of Analytic Philosophy 9 (2): 1-32. 2015.The classical (set-theoretic) concept of structure has become essential for every contemporary account of a scientific theory, but also for the metatheoretical accounts dealing with the adequacy of such theories and their methods. In the latter category of accounts, and in particular, the structural metamodels designed for the applicability of mathematics have struggled over the last decade to justify the use of mathematical models in sciences beyond their 'indispensability' in terms of either m…Read more
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23The Epistemology of the Near Miss and Its Potential Contribution in the Prevention and Treatment of Problem-GamblingJournal of Gambling Studies 1 1-16. 2019.The near-miss has been considered an important factor of reinforcement in gambling behavior, and previous research has focused more on its industry-related causes and effects and less on the gaming phenomenon itself. The near-miss has usually been associated with the games of slots and scratch cards, due to the special characteristics of these games, which include the possibility of pre-manipulation of award symbols in order to increase the frequency of these “engineered” near-misses. In this pa…Read more
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |
M&E, Misc |
General Philosophy of Science |
Philosophy of Mathematics |