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Mathematics and scientific representation
Mathematics plays a central role in much of contemporary science, but philosophers have struggled to understand what this role is or how significant it might be for mathematics and science. Pincock tackles this perennial question by asking how mathematics contributes to the success of our best scientific representations.
Part 1. Epistemic contributions -- Content and confirmation -- Causes -- Varying interpretations -- Scale matters -- Constitutive frameworks -- Failures -- Part 2. Other contributions -- Discovery -- Indispensability -- Explanation -- The rainbow -- Fictionalism -- Facades -- Conclusion: Pure mathematics.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford studies in the philosophy of science