SOBRE EL COLAPSO DE LAS ESTRUCTURAS MATEMÁTICAS Y FÍSICAS EN EL REALISMO ESTRUCTURAL ÓNTICO

AUTOR(ES)
FONTE

Kriterion

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

29/08/2019

RESUMO

ABSTRACT Section 1 introduces what I call the collapse thesis, which holds that the boundaries of mathematical and physical structures blur or even vanish in certain areas of fundamental physics. Section 2 examines the claim that the indispensability of mathematics to fundamental physics requires the adoption of mathematical Platonism, this time concerning the reality of mathematical structures, as ontic structural realism contends. Section 3 demonstrates that the collapse thesis introduces the threat of the mathematical universe hypothesis. Then, from the perspective of the inferential conception in the philosophy of applied mathematics, section 4 examines epistemic features of the role of mathematics in scientific theorizing, drawing distinctions between mathematical and physical structures. Lastly, the argument closes in section 5 pointing out some of the limits of the proposed strategy for a distinction.

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