Levels and a new role for mathematics in sciences
Levels and a new role for mathematics in sciences
Research Presentation
In this talk, I discuss the bridging role of mathematics in empirical sciences as a reliable connecting scheme in our explanatory reasoning from lower-level to higher-level phenomena. I support this proposal by analyzing two explanations in biology and physics.
This paper has been presented at the British Society for the Philosophy of Science (Durham, UK) and Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (Vancouver, Canada).