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Models, fictions and explanations: A study in historical epistemology of economics [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2013
This paper examines the standard criticism of the neoclassical economic theory that takes mathematical formalism and the practice of modelling as the most problematic aspect of orthodox economics. The aim of the paper is to explore the epistemic
Žitko Mislav
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Foundation of Mathematics between Theory and Practice

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2014
In this article I propose to look at set theory not only as a founda­tion of mathematics in a traditional sense, but as a foundation for mathemat­ical practice.
Giorgio Venturi
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La physique dans la recherche en mathématiques constructives

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2012
I focus on a practice of mathematical research which consists in reformulating constructively physical theories. More precisely, I discuss three features of this practice. First, I show that it is stimulated by philosophical views and discuss how physics
Vincent Ardourel
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Reopening the Hole Argument

Philosophy of Physics, 2023
This expository paper relates the Hole Argument in general relativity (GR) to the well-known theorem of Choquet-Bruhat and Geroch (1969) on the existence and uniqueness of globally hyperbolic solutions to the Einstein field equations.
Klaas Landsman
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Review of FERREIRÓS, J; LASSALLE CASANAVE, A. El árbol de los números. Editorial Universidad de Sevilla: Sevilla, 2016

Manuscrito
We review Ferreirós and Lassalle Casanave's recently publishedbook "El árbol de los números". The book is a result of the Brazilian-Spanish conference "Sobre la elucidación del concepto de número: cognición, lógica y práctica matemática" hosted in ...
Bruno Mendonça
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How to annotate a corpus for research on frames in the language of mathematics

Kalbotyra
This paper outlines a plan for designing a corpus-linguistic project from which an analysis of frames specific to mathematical proof texts shall be derived. Previous work has already developed instances of frames for mathematical texts.
Bernhard Fisseni, Deniz Sarikaya, Bernhard Schröder   +2 more
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Fontenelle : jouer et philosopher

Etudes Epistémè, 2021
As Leibniz’s interlocutor, as an assiduous (and quietly polemic) reader of Pascal, and as a distant follower of Epicurus, Fontenelle had every reason not to ignore the moral and philosophical importance of gambling.
Christophe Martin
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Leibniz entre logicisme, formalisme et intuitionnisme ?

Philosophia Scientiæ
Leibniz has often been presented as one of the precursors of logicism or formalism but more rarely a precursor of intuitionism. He was a staunch defender of the Tertium non datur, reasoning in forma and blind thought, so at first glance he appears far ...
David Rabouin
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Lange on Mathematical Explanation, Grounding, and the Divergence Thesis

Crítica
Mark Lange has defended the view that mathematical explanation and grounding explanation diverge. In this paper, I argue that at least one type of grounding relation is immune to his criticisms. After fixing a minimal separatist theory of ground, I show
Mohammad Maarefi
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Mathematical Rigor, Proof Gap and the Validity of Mathematical Inference

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2014
Mathematical rigor is commonly formulated by mathematicians and philosophers using the notion of proof gap: a mathematical proof is rigorous when there is no gap in the mathematical reasoning of the proof. Any philosophical approach to mathematical rigor
Yacin Hamami
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