Davies, E Brian (2006) Scientific Understanding. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Many of those actively involved in the physical sciences adopt a reductionist point of view, in which all aspects of the world are ultimately controlled by physical laws that are expressed in terms of mathematical equations. In this article we adopt a pluralistic approach to human understanding in which mathematically expressed laws of nature are merely one way among several of describing a world that is too vast and complex for our minds to be able to grasp in its entirety.
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| Keywords: | reductionism, Kant, Platonism, pluralism, epistemology |
| Subjects: | General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Mathematics General Issues > Reductionism/Holism General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Physics |
| Depositing User: | E Brian Davies |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 11:14 |
| Item ID: | 2952 |
| URI: | http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2952 |
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