Sam Baron<\/p>\n
University of Western Australia<\/p>\n
4 December 2019, 16:00<\/strong><\/p>\n Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa<\/strong><\/p>\n Room B? <\/strong>(close to the Faculty\u2019s Library)<\/p>\n Abstract:<\/strong> Mathematics clearly plays an important role in scientific explanation. Debate continues, however, over\u00a0the kind of role that mathematics plays. Mathematics may be\u00a0playing a \u2018thick\u2019 explanatory role, in this\u00a0sense: there are some physical phenomena that occur for mathematical reasons. Alternatively, it may be\u00a0that mathematics\u00a0is playing a \u2018thin\u2019 explanatory role by merely representing the physical reasons why\u00a0certain phenomena occur. It has been argued that the explanatory indispensability of\u00a0mathematics under-determines the kind of role that mathematics plays, and so doesn\u2019t\u00a0provide a reason to believe that\u00a0mathematics is playing a thick role. I argue that if\u00a0mathematical and physical explanations are\u00a0indispensably unified within science, then\u00a0we have good reason to believe that mathematics is playing a\u00a0thick role. The argument\u00a0provides guidance on the types of explanation we should be looking for to\u00a0establish\u00a0that mathematics is genuinely explanatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sam Baron University of Western Australia Unification and Mathematical Explanation 4 December 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Room B? (close to the Faculty\u2019s Library) Abstract: Mathematics clearly plays an important role in scientific explanation. Debate continues, however, over\u00a0the kind of role that mathematics plays. Mathematics may be\u00a0playing a \u2018thick\u2019 explanatory role, in this\u00a0sense: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}