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Year: 2016

Series: Synthese

Full citation:

Daniele Molinini, Fabrice Pataut, Andrea Sereni (eds), Indispensability and explanation, Synthese 193 (2), 2016.

Indispensability and explanation

Contents

Which explanatory role for mathematics in scientific models?

reply to "the explanatory dispensability of idealizations"

Silvia de Bianchi

387-401

Equivalent explanations and mathematical realism

reply to "evidence, explanation, and enhanced indispensability"

Andrea Sereni

423-434

Naturalizing indispensability

a rejoinder to "the varieties of indispensability arguments"

Henri Galinon

517-530

Nominalistic content, grounding, and covering generalizations

reply to "grounding and the indispensability argument"

Matteo Plebani

549-558

Committing to an individual

ontological commitment, reference and epistemology

Frédérique Janssen-Lauret

583-604

Mapping the mind

bridge laws and the psycho-neural interface

Marco J. Nathan, Guillermo Del Pinal

637-657