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Stating Maths-First Realism: Some Tentative Proposals

Stating Maths-First Realism: Some Tentative Proposals. This paper is based on a talk presented in January at the Oxford Philosophy of Physics seminar and the ...

Stating Maths-First Realism, or: How to Say Things with Models

Wallace's 'maths-first realism' is a recent expression of this desire. It is still unclear, however, how mathematical models can mean anything ...

Stating Structural Realism: Mathematics‐First Approaches to ...

The approach I propose is based on what I call a 'math-first' approach to physical theories (close to the so-called 'semantic view of theories')

Caspar Jacobs "Stating Maths-First Realism" 25 January 2024

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Stating structural realism: mathematics‐first approaches to physics ...

I respond to the frequent objection that structural realism fails to sharply state an alternative to the standard predicate-logic, ...

Mathematical Realism and 0=1 - Philosophy Stack Exchange

Mathematical Realism is the notion that mathematical truth exists, and is not subjective or merely a mental construction.

Realism in Mathematics | Oxford Academic

The early sections describe the pre‐theoretic realism of the mathematician, survey the basic forms of realism in philosophy, and attempt to disentangle the ...

THEISM & MATHEMATICAL REALISM

Realism is indispensable for science. Modern physics is so heavily dependent upon mathematics that its theories could hardly be even stated without mathematics.

Scientific realism, the mathematical structure of reality, and maybe ...

The first incompleteness theorem states that in any consistent formal system F within which a certain amount of arithmetic can be carried out, ...

Foundations of mathematics - Wikipedia

5.1 Philosophical views. 5.1.1 Formalism; 5.1.2 Intuitionism; 5.1.3 Logicism; 5.1.4 Set-theoretic Platonism; 5.1.5 Indispensability argument for realism; 5.1.6 ...

Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics

... mathematical realism would again be on par with scientific realism. ... –––, 2016, “Explaining Mathematical Explanation”, The Philosophical ...

Franklin on Aristotelian realism and mathematics - Edward Feser

So, how does the Aristotelian explain the existence of mathematical necessities in the world? What James Franklin is saying is that Mathematics ...

Math-First Structural Realism Workshop - James Owen Weatherall >

... Stating Structural Realism: Mathematics-First Approaches to Physics and Metaphysics". Speakers will include Eleanor Knox (Kings College, London / University…

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics - Wikipedia

It has a focus on issues in contemporary philosophy, such as the mathematical realism–anti-realism debate and the philosophical significance of mathematical ...

REALISM IN MATHEMATICS - LSE

want to emphasize that this way of stating things is convenient but not essential . Those realist s who believ e that a robus t reference relation is not ...

Inference to the Best Explanation and Mathematical Realism

133) it features three premises, roughly stated as follows: (1) Our best physical theories make an indispensable use of mathematics – Indispensability. (2) ...

Augustine's Mathematical Realism

What we are saying here is that there are some true arithmetical statements that we humans can know to be true; that is we are so constituted and equipped that ...

An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics - PhilArchive

As stated in the opening line of the book, ''mathematics is a science of the real world'' (1). Mathematical objects are ''mind-independent objects which are ...

Realism and Anti-Realism about Mathematics - jstor

... mathematical "data" to simple number-theoretic equations - we can justify quite abstract parts of mathematics in terms of their success in explaining this data:.

3 The Case for Mathematical Realism - Oxford Academic

The application of mathematics to science and the enormous success that derives from it is, perhaps, the strongest evidence in favour of mathematical realism.