Barrantes, Manuel (2024) Against Empirical Platonism and Aristotelian Realism. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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In this paper, I argue that the constrains operating in some cases of so-called mathematical explanations of physical phenomena (MEPPs) are not strictly speaking mathematical. For this reason, the existence of explanations by constraint in science does not justify mathematical realism, not even in its Aristotelian version. I illustrate this with the now-classic case of the Bridges of Königsberg, as well as the case of the carbon molecules known as buckyballs (buckminsterfullerene).
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| Keywords: | Indispensability Constraints Bridges Buckyballs | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Mathematics General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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| Depositing User: | Mr. Manuel Barrantes | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2024 16:10 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 13 Nov 2024 16:10 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 24200 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Mathematics General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism |
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| Date: | 2024 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24200 |
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