Are There Genuine Physical Explanations of Mathematical Phenomena?
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Are there Genuine Mathematical Explana - tions of Physical Phenomena ?
Many explanations in science make use of mathematics. But are there cases where the mathematical component of a scientific explanation is explanatory in its own right? This issue of mathematical explanations in science has been for the most part neglected. I argue that there are genuine mathematical explanations in science, and present in some detail an example of such an explanation, taken fro...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0007-0882,1464-3537
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/axt038