Si nos théories physiques peuvent décrire les traits les plus généraux de la réalité, on sait aussi que pour le faire, elles utilisent le langage des mathématiques. On peut alors légitimement se demander si notre capacité à décrire, sinon la nature intime des objets et phénomènes physiques, du moins les relations et structures qu’ils instancient, ne vient pas de cette application des mathématiques. Dans cette thèse, nous soutenons que les mathématiques sont si efficacement applicables en physique tout simplement parce que la réalité décrite par les physiciens est de nature quantitative. Pour cela, nous proposons d’abord une ontologie des quantités, puis des lois de la nature, qui s’inscrit dans les débats contemporains sur la nature des pro...
Mathematics plays a double role in modern physics. First, it enables the mathematician to construct ...
It has been almost eighty years since Paul Dirac delivered a lecture on the relationship between ma...
MATHEMATISATION AND CONTINGENCY. THE\ud PROBLEM OF NATURAL LAWS STATUTE ACCORDING TO QUENTIN\ud MEIL...
Assuming that our best physical theories succeed in describing the most general features of reality,...
The notions of “mathematicalness” and “mathematicability” of nature appear in the context of attempt...
The essay traces the following idea from the presocratic philosopher Heraclitus, to the Pythagoreans...
Realists often suggest that scientific knowledge is grounded in the mathematical representation of n...
Abstract mathematical formulae are our “mother tongue”, thanks to which we are able to develop a cre...
If physicalism is true, everything is physical. In other words, everything supervenes on, or is nece...
The view of nature we adopt in the natural attitude is determined by common sense, without which we ...
Du Châtelet holds that mathematical representations play an explanatory role in natural science. Mor...
I begin by outlining Du Châtelet’s ontology of mathematical objects: she is an idealist, and mathema...
Examining the pioneering ideas, works, and applications that have made math the language of science,...
Newton's use of mathematics in mechanics was justified by him from his neo-platonician conception of...
If physicalism is true, everything is physical. In other words, everything su-pervenes on, or is nec...
Mathematics plays a double role in modern physics. First, it enables the mathematician to construct ...
It has been almost eighty years since Paul Dirac delivered a lecture on the relationship between ma...
MATHEMATISATION AND CONTINGENCY. THE\ud PROBLEM OF NATURAL LAWS STATUTE ACCORDING TO QUENTIN\ud MEIL...
Assuming that our best physical theories succeed in describing the most general features of reality,...
The notions of “mathematicalness” and “mathematicability” of nature appear in the context of attempt...
The essay traces the following idea from the presocratic philosopher Heraclitus, to the Pythagoreans...
Realists often suggest that scientific knowledge is grounded in the mathematical representation of n...
Abstract mathematical formulae are our “mother tongue”, thanks to which we are able to develop a cre...
If physicalism is true, everything is physical. In other words, everything supervenes on, or is nece...
The view of nature we adopt in the natural attitude is determined by common sense, without which we ...
Du Châtelet holds that mathematical representations play an explanatory role in natural science. Mor...
I begin by outlining Du Châtelet’s ontology of mathematical objects: she is an idealist, and mathema...
Examining the pioneering ideas, works, and applications that have made math the language of science,...
Newton's use of mathematics in mechanics was justified by him from his neo-platonician conception of...
If physicalism is true, everything is physical. In other words, everything su-pervenes on, or is nec...
Mathematics plays a double role in modern physics. First, it enables the mathematician to construct ...
It has been almost eighty years since Paul Dirac delivered a lecture on the relationship between ma...
MATHEMATISATION AND CONTINGENCY. THE\ud PROBLEM OF NATURAL LAWS STATUTE ACCORDING TO QUENTIN\ud MEIL...