Author: Zelcer Mark
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISSN: 0925-4560
Source: Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Vol.44, Iss.1, 2013-07, pp. : 173-192
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Abstract
Lately, philosophers of mathematics have been exploring the notion of mathematical explanation within mathematics. This project is supposed to be analogous to the search for the correct analysis of scientific explanation. I argue here that given the way philosophers have been using “explanation,” the term is not applicable to mathematics as it is in science.
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