Abstract Daniele Molininiís book offers an introduction to the problem of mathematical explanation, both in mathematics itself and in science. After a historical reconstruction of the notion of mathematical explanation, and a survey of its relations with the notion of…
Agustín Rayo is Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the philosophy of logic and language. In his writings, Rayo has explored the representational nature of language, the relation between logic and mathematics, and…
Stewart Shapiro (1951) insegna presso la Ohio State University, ed è uno dei massimi esponenti della filosofia della matematica e della filosofia della logica contemporanee. In filosofia della matematica è noto per la sua originale versione di strutturalismo. In filosofia…
Abstract Crispin Wirght (born 1942) is a British philosopher whose works cover fields like the philosophy of language and mathematics of Gottlob Frege and Ludwig Wittgenstein (in both cases, through the influence of Michael Dummett’s thought), the debate between realism…
Abstract Suppose there are true or well-confirmed scientific theories, and that some mathematical theories turn out to be indispensable to them, in some sense to be further specified. If we assume that these scientific theories can be true (or well-confirmed)…