Abstract In his book “Naturalism. Philosophy, Science, Mythology”, Federico Laudisa provides a valuable critical excursus on naturalism and articulates his personal critical view of this family of theories. First of all, Laudisa affirms that naturalism is based on the assumption…
Abstract The theory of scientific explanation hinges on two fundamental axes. On the one hand it aims at clarifying the difference between descriptive and explanatory knowledge. On the other it aims at capturing those features that distinguish scientific explanation from…
Abstract The Devil in the Details is one of the most relevant recent philosophical contributions to the study of applied mathematics. According to Robert Batterman, asymptotic reasoning is one of the most important tools of abstraction in science. For this…